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Issue 11, 2012

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The health systems of developed countries have entered an era of unprecedented uncertainty. Until recently, increasing investments in health care enabled them to achieve significant gains—the populations they serve lived longer, better, and happier. However, the current fiscal challenges these health systems face are severe.

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Using care pathways to improve health systems

Care pathways enable health systems (and other healthcare organizations) to make evidence-based decisions about where to focus improvement efforts.

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Driving down the cost of high-quality care: Lessons from the Aravind Eye Care System

Aravind is delivering high-quality, low-cost ophthalmological care to some of India's poorest people. Its methods might help the health systems of developed countries.

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How to use war games as a strategic tool in healthcare

For healthcare organizations facing uncertainty, war games can be an effective way to practice strategic decision making in a risk-free environment—before choices have to be made in the real world.

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Providing better care at lower cost for multimorbid patients

Predictive modeling of payor data can identify the subset of high-cost patients who are most likely to respond to intensive, home-based interventions.

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What it takes to make integrated care work

New McKinsey research shows that integrated care can be implemented in virtually any health system. However, three elements are necessary to ensure success.

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Healthcare beyond medicine: Meeting the demand for new forms of care

By partnering with organizations from other industries and adopting some of their innovations, health systems could provide patients with new services despite their financial constraints.

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Transparency—the most powerful driver of health care improvement?

Transparency about performance may be a key precondition for improving service delivery and productivity in health care.

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Scaling up a transformation: An interview with Eureko's Jeroen van Breda Vriesman

A member of Eureko's executive board describes how the Dutch insurance group transformed its health division to respond to government reforms.

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Why hospital management matters

A survey of almost 1,200 hospitals in seven countries shows that five factors influence the strength of a hospital's management practices—and the outcomes achieved.

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