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Outcomes in Healthcare: developing and measuring standards

The definition of health outcomes can be defined as results of care, which matter most to patients, e.g. quality of life. These outcomes should be organized around value. By value, we mean outcomes divided by cost. The goal is to achieve the best outcomes for the lowest cost, which should apply worldwide.However, huge variation occurs globally in clinical outcomes both within and between countries, e.g. in hospital performance and in mortality rates, as does the cost of deliver

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Social Media and HR – where do we go from here?

Paying attention to the HR topics at the Social Media Week in Hamburg last week made one thing quite obvious: HR and Social Media are tied in a close knot, not since yesterday, and buzzwords like “active sourcing” and “employer branding” are pretty much old news. But how do we proceed once we understood the alliance?To be clear, this is speaking from the filter bubble at the very Social Media Week itself because – that we know – this is far less “old news” in the “real world” w

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Digital Health Solutions and what they need to make it

Yes, the Internet is here to stay. And yes, there are 3,4 billion smartphones in use on this planet and life becomes more digital by the minute. It’s no surprise that healthcare management has experienced an explosion of digital connected devices and connected data that prompt new opportunities but also challenges to topics like integrated care solutions and data-driven innovation. A visit to the&nbsp;<a href="http://ip-conference.de/home/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: var(--ricos-c

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Organizational Structures for Talent-Management and Recruiting – What needs to be done?

Let’s start with an example from recent experience: a medium-sized company is searching for a specialist in a high-level position. They post various job ads in pricey outlets and wait. Nothing is happening. They have a lot of work but it doesn’t seem to fit. They turn to 2-3 different HR consultants but don’t get satisfying numbers of applicants that fit the company or even the job ad. HR gets frustrated because there are a lot of other things on their table they have to attend to.<span style="background-color: transparen

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The Healthcare Industry and Professionalized Data Management

It is a well-known fact in the world of healthcare that the quantity of medical information collected on the planet doubles every nine months. While the worldwide population is growing at a comparatively slow rate, the explosion of information relative to these individuals is following an exponential curve. So the future of healthcare will have to deal with a large amount of data and the question of how to deal with it.A lot of data on a desert island<

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Life sciences and innovation – the (difficult) role of funding

It is needless to say that life sciences – like any other sector – need innovation to thrive. And there are countless ongoing changes that drive the life sciences to finding new technologies, new services and new ways to integrate these into system and supply solutions. Innovation itself is known to be a vital part of a growing and healthy company. And although innovation – in its literal sense – is intrinsically motivated and has a self-fulfilling benefit, there are numerous factors at play that can help but also limit innovation.&n

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