Oct 10 2011
Modern Healthcare: Healthcare's 'Moneyball'
Hospitals waiting on Congress to squeeze spending may sympathize with the Oakland Athletics' reversal of fortune more than a decade ago, when the ball club's owners refused to continue profligate spending...Now hospital executives, flooded with data from information technology investments and under pressure to curb waste and spending, face the same question that Beane and others before him, including Bill James, an influential author and baseball statistician, sought to answer: What measures matter the most (Evans 10/10)?
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