Like others on the leading edge in health care, they believe this direction of paying for outcomes rather than individual treatments, and intensive data monitoring to understand what works and which patients are at risk, will become the way of the future regardless of what the Supreme Court decides on the Obama health care law.

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In this view it is necessary to know, or to have a solid theory of how HR inputs are transformed into business outcomes, and to be able to provide control, training, and monitoring.

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Further, as a key requirement for GDI certification would be no net loss of biodiversity, this would require monitoring the biodiversity performance of the land management and independent verification of outcomes.

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