Increasing Efficiency and Enhancing Value in Health Care: Ways to Achieve Savings in Operating Costs per Year

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This paper proposes a set of steps health care organizations can undertake to systematically identify and eliminate inefficiencies to create a portfolio of work leading to a 1 percent to 3 percent savings in operating costs per year. Methods for developing a balanced portfolio of projects and for calculating and tracking cost savings are also described.