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Companies for Social Good

Women on Business

This became very important after the 2010 earthquake devastated the country. They are creating curriculum focused on math, science, technology and engineering. The study compared employees that participated in the wellness program to those that did not. “They have a shortage of workers.

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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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The U.S. Can’t Count on Technology to Revive the Job Market

Harvard Business Review

Technology to the rescue? One of the promising areas supported by technology is at the intersection of the internet and online technologies with the physical world: the “internet of things” (IoT). The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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A Global Online Network Lets Health Professionals Share Expertise

Harvard Business Review

In response, our team at the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard launched an online platform to generate and disseminate knowledge in health care delivery. In health care, we thought, they could be a rapid, practical means for diverse professionals to share insights and tactics. Growing Participation.

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How Design Thinking Is Improving Patient-Caregiver Conversations

Harvard Business Review

Technical developments tend to grab the headlines in health care. Predictive analytics , telemedicine , electronic health records — technology is rightly seen as a transformative force in health delivery. A trial group was trained in 2010, and the entire staff is now trained on a yearly basis.

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Operational Improvement Has Improved

Harvard Business Review

About ten years ago they spread to financial services and, in the past five years, more deeply into health care and services. All care givers in the process now have better access to shared information about the standard patient pathway and shared measures. The growth of social technology for sharing and learning.

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Making Hospital Partnerships Work

Harvard Business Review

In today’s health care landscape, consultants often advise independent hospitals to merge with a larger health system. Leading Change in Health Care. After much deliberation, we partnered with University of Chicago Medicine (UCM) in 2010. However, the evidence supporting mergers is uncertain at best.