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Searching for Health Care's Entrepreneurial Spirit

Harvard Business Review

The Mayo clinic in Minnesota shows that care can be coordinated. Coordinating health care information technology requires government action, which was a decade slow in coming. Convenience and coordination are the standards for most industries - but medicine falls far short.

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How Mayo Clinic Is Using iPads to Empower Patients

Harvard Business Review

An effort under way at the Mayo Clinic shows how such technology can be used to improve outcomes and lower costs in health care. For example, it included information on wound care, exercise and diet, activity restrictions, follow-up appointments, and potential complications and how to recognize them. Source: Mayo Clinic.

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