Considerations on Healthcare

We all want excellent healthcare, but we also want value for money. Today, in particular, with huge pressure on budgets, we need to try to get much more for much less. That means tough decisions, and that makes good information more important than ever.

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Ardentia Ltd runs its own blog at:

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Some press work from my time at Ardentia:

Poor financial data... from BJHCIM

PLICS questions and answers from BJHCIM

Intelligent Response from e-Health Insider

And they're off by Daloni Carlisle from e-Health Insider

Business intelligence is the key from PublicTechnology.net
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