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Why the Tech Industry Won’t Disrupt Health Care

Harvard Business Review

At first glance, it looks like health care in the United States is ripe for disruption. But for many reasons, the incumbents — established health systems — will be extremely hard to displace. Instead, the winners will be health systems that team up with digital tech companies.

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A Company Health & Wellness Center that Delivers High Value Low Cost Healthcare – Is it Possible?

N2Growth Blog

The changing landscape created by the Affordable Care Act has made it difficult, but not impossible to assert control over company health care spend. As an employer, you do have a great deal of power in this dynamic and you can make choices that will make a difference, both to employees and the bottom line of the company.

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Robots for Health Care from Toyota

Curious Cat

This increases the need for health care and for assistance with everyday tasks from the elderly. Japan is also among the leading countries for developing robots for health care and living assistance. This is difficult for companies to pull of successfully. Japan has an extremely rapidly aging population.

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Can Business Transform Primary Health Care Across Africa?

Harvard Business Review

Pan-African health care company mPharma aims to transform community pharmacies into health care centers across the continent.

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WHE21: Can Behavioral Economics Solve Your Company’s Health Care Problems? | with Derek Yach from Vitality Institute

Engaging Leader

In particular, the still-evolving field of behavioral economics provides opportunities for employers to use evidence-based strategies to improve the health of their workforce. As described by National Public Radio, the Vitality Institute “finds ways to pay people to do healthful things” like eating more vegetables or exercising.

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Importance of Employee Benefit Package And Why it Matters

HR Digest

Business leaders understand the vital connection between talent and company performance. To drive company’s success, benchmark and budget a benefit plan that attracts the skilled employees, is needed to keep the employees performing at their best. Health care flexible spending accounts 3. Health insurance 2.

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10 Companies Offering Work from Home

HR Digest

Moreover, for companies that have a global presence, hiring the best talent wherever available gives the leeway to be connected 24/7 to someone at work in some part of the globe. We here bring you a list of companies that are open to work home schedules: RackSpace. is a cloud computing company based in Windcrest, Texas.

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