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How Mobile Phones Can "Reverse Innovate" Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Many communities in emerging markets receive their front-line primary health care from community health care workers. In South Africa, for instance, 50 percent of all health care providers are community workers. In fact, Vodafone spun out the work through the creation of a Mobile Health Unit in January 2010.

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Possibility Maximizer: TED Talks

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The Downside of Health Care Job Growth

Harvard Business Review

While the growth of health care costs has slowed over the past few years, lowering costs over the long term will depend on improving health care labor productivity. Reducing the rate at which health care costs grow, and the proportion of U. health system grew by nearly 75%. Over half of the $2.6

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

Consider the case of MedStar Health, the largest nongovernment health care provider in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., region, as it navigates a dramatic shift from competing by offering integrated, comprehensive medical services to offering lower cost preventive care. area health care market has indeed shifted.

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The Company Outsmarting Big Pharma in Africa

Harvard Business Review

In addition to investing in its own product development and marketing capabilities internally, it has created a network of alliances and licensing agreements with an extraordinarily wide range of other organizations with complementary skills and resources. to develop and produce an improved first? to develop and produce an improved first?line

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Immigrant Doctors Provide Better Care, According to a Study of 1.2 Million Hospitalizations

Harvard Business Review

health care system. According to 2010 data , of approximately 850,000 doctors providing direct patient care in the U.S., and be licensed to practice in the U.S. International graduates are vital to providing health care in the U.S., for 90 days. This may have a measurable impact on the U.S.

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A Brief Review of Hillary Clinton’s Innovation Plan

Harvard Business Review

Clinton promises a law that would “unlock” a ballooning number of older written and audio-visual works that, thanks to repeated and retroactive copyright extensions on behalf of Disney and other large rights holders, can’t be licensed or used because no one knows who owns them anymore.