Category: Spend Analysis
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Is China’s Old Pharma Too Complex to Simplify?
[ad_1] China has long promoted its traditional medicinal system as a national treasure and more recently as a tool of soft power. While the ancient art remains a policy priority, however, it faces very modern challenges including rising costs, complexities of production and treatment, and murky intellectual property rights. Chinese medicine practitioners have been treating patients with herbal medicine and acupuncture around…
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Are Your Clinical Leaders Empowered to Make Data-Driven Changes that Impact Labor Spend?
[ad_1] Cara Cook, CEO of Cara Cook Consulting Using data to drive decisions seems like an obvious choice when managing labor. However, selecting the most appropriate data to analyze is easier said than done, as healthcare systems continue to collect more and more information throughout the patient stay. Collecting, validating, and sharing actionable information is…
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The north deserves the same investment as London
[ad_1] The Department for Transport (DfT) has released averages of daily road use over 22,700 stretches of road across the country, counting cars and bicycles, motorbikes and mopeds, vans and lorries. While the broad conclusions shouldn’t surprise anyone – motorways are busy, country roads in the Highlands aren’t – there are some interesting findings hidden…