Healthcare is the third rnlargest group in the Standard & Poor's 500, behind financial services and IT. Considering the amount of knowledge, labor and materials devoted to the industry, there is no doubt that healthcare is a major economic force in society.rnAs resources continue to pour into healthcare investments, how can we be confident they are being efficiently allo-cated?rnAs largely not-for-profit ventures, you would think that investments in hospitals would follow a simple formula: maximize value to society by providing the highest quality of healthcare for a given level of costs.
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