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Your Secret Weapon in Business: Culture
Forbes | June 8, 2014
Category: General
Why do some companies stay competitive, while others fall behind? The answer used to seem clear: great companies simply harness the best people, and invest in the most innovative ideas. Today, however, merely having great talent, ideas, and capital no …
Bundled Payments Could Cut Medicare Fraud
USA Today | May 19, 2014
Category: Healthcare, Sector Specific
Health and policy experts are pushing for a system that pays doctors a lump sum for medical care or allows them to share in savings, saying it will save millions of dollars over current fee-for-service payments that can lead to …
Healthcare’s dysfunction offers opportunity
Modern Healthcare | May 17, 2014
Category: Healthcare, Sector Specific
The dysfunction of healthcare may very well be the greatest business opportunity out there. Those who can dig through the morass of rules, paperwork and bureaucratic obstacles have a frontier ahead of them in an industry where great service, low …
Tapping into Controversial Back Surgeries
CBS News | April 24, 2014
Category: Healthcare, Portfolio Companies, Sector Specific
Back pain is one of the most common reasons Americans go to the doctor, and one of the fastest growing treatments is spinal fusion surgery. From 2001 to 2011, the number of spinal fusions in U.S. hospitals increased 70 percent, …
Telehealth Gains Momentum in Obamacare Era
Information Week | April 17, 2014
Category: Healthcare, Portfolio Companies, Sector Specific
The Affordable Care Act’s focus on population health and cost-cutting is encouraging providers and insurers to invest in remote healthcare technologies.