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How Mayo Clinic Is Combating Information Overload in Critical Care Units

Harvard Business Review

How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. We created a multidisciplinary team of clinicians, researchers, and experts in clinical informatics to design and test information-technology tools that can help, rather than hinder, clinical care. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier. Sponsored by Optum.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

We have closely studied three of these models: The Helix Center at Imperial College London, the Center for Innovation at the Mayo Clinic, and the Consortium for Medical Technologies at Massachusetts General Hospital. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier.

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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. Source: Mayo Clinic. Source: Mayo Clinic. The average user of the program in its first seven months (from April to November 2012) was 68 years old. Implementation. Results and Benefits.

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Giving Patients an Active Role in Their Health Care

Harvard Business Review

For patients who suffer from chronic or complex conditions, as a Mayo Clinic paper recently argued , the “burden of treatment” must be shouldered alongside the “burden of illness.” Support the Patient through Network-Enabled Technology. Technology can’t do patients’ job for them.

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Morning Advantage: The Healing Power of Painful Budget Cuts

Harvard Business Review

Getting Mad, Crossing Over, Being Courageous: Leadership in 2012 (Washington Post "On Leadership" blog). Innovative Brand Ideas from 2012 (Creativity). If you’re looking to make your brand more interactive in 2013, the seeds of inspiration may be found in Creativity’s roundup of the best integrated/interactive work of 2012.