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How One Medical Group Is Decreasing Physician Burnout

Harvard Business Review

Physician burnout is a growing problem for all health care systems in the United States. Burned-out physicians deliver lower quality care , reduce their hours, or stop practicing , reducing access to care around the country. The Leading Edge of Health Care. Leverage Technology. Insight Center.

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How the EMR Is Increasing Innovation and Creativity in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Americans are both undertreated and overtreated in a health care system that wastes up to $1 trillion a year and delivers profoundly uneven quality: Current estimates indicate that preventable medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States. Information technology has come late to health care delivery.

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3 Health Care Trends That Don’t Hinge on the ACA

Harvard Business Review

health care system that won’t change. As a result, regardless of how the law evolves, tremendous opportunities will remain for consumers, medical providers, health care payers, and investors to shape and improve the health care system. But technology has become rooted firmly in U.S.