The importance and improvement of systemness in healthcare
Holistic approach can build organization greater than sum of its parts
By Valerie Boelman, Wyatt Hockmeyer, Kevin Nortrup and Matt Vogl
Like many industries, healthcare has been struggling
with increasing costs and decreasing revenues for
some time. One response to such pressure is to seek to
improve the efficiency of operations and the utilization
of resources through consolidation, mergers and
acquisitions. However, the resulting increase in the
size, scope and complexity of healthcare organizations often has
the unintended consequence of complicating the coordination
of the elements within them.
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