Costs could be contained, Bartz indicated, by more efficient content creation and management software.

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Complementing the steps they take on the revenue side, the leaders will also reduce costs by making claims management more efficient and cutting administrative overhead.

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Yet his most important contribution to medicine is not his surgical skill but his determination to make this huge industry more efficient by applying Henry Ford's management principles.

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We know that our work in the field has to be supported by strong backroom capabilities, efficient operational processes, financial management and enabling technologies.

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For 25 years he made himself and the management consultancies BCG and Bain a lot of money by making companies more efficient which, yes, sometimes means firing people, but also drives economic growth (see article).

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Growth can be generated either by increased inputs of capital and labour or by more efficient use of those inputs as a result of new technology or better management.

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Software tools, in the form of centralized, Web-based management applications and platforms, are making buildings smarter and more energy-efficient by ensuring that lighting better matches the way we work today.

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WellPoint will be using the system internally for its nurses and clinicians who handle utilization management, the process by which health insurers determine which treatments are fair, appropriate and efficient and, in turn, what it will cover.

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