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The Innovation Health Care Really Needs: Help People Manage Their Own Health

Harvard Business Review

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. health care keeps getting costlier.

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A Role for Specialists in Resuscitating Accountable Care Organizations

Harvard Business Review

health care are Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) — networks of doctors, hospitals and usually payers banded together to rein in costs by providing higher quality, better coordinated care, with primary care doctors central to the process. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Rural China Offers Big Opportunities, Too

Harvard Business Review

In the 1980s, and even the early 1990s, rural life focused on farming, and it was a hard existence: most people were grindingly poor and lacked basic amenities, including decent schools and health care, paved roads, and a reliable power supply. Greater use of information technology and mobile communications to empower farmers.

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The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

Under such conditions, decision-making is complicated even when it only requires analysis of facts. Under such conditions, decision-making is complicated even when it only requires analysis of facts. His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work. All rights reserved.

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To Cut Health Costs, Focus on the First Minutes of Care

Harvard Business Review

Popular television shows—from ER to House to Grey’s Anatomy—have long dramatized how crucial early moments of care are for trauma victims. But what most don’t realize is that very same principle—that early, accurate intervention matters—applies across the entire health care system, not just in trauma cases, but in nearly all cases.

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The H-1B Visa Debate, Explained

Harvard Business Review

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. An analysis led by Hal Salzman , a professor at Rutgers University, found that the U.S. But in April, just after U.S.