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Health International, issue 12
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Health International, issue 12

December 2012–Most health system leaders today, faced hard decisions about money, have discovered that they have a “healthcare value gap”—the outcomes their systems are achieving with each euro, pound, or dollar spent often fall short of what they could be. But in pockets of innovation around the world, some health systems have found a way to address the value gap successfully.more

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