First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 4, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an interview conducted by Art Kleiner for strategy+business magazine, published by Bain & Company. Bain & Company Ceramics Process Systems Corporation Clayton Christensen CPS Technologies Corporation Curtis W. To read the complete interview, check out other resources, learn [.].

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The paper highlights how around a third of adults over 65 years of age have found themselves cut off from care due to technological difficulties accessing telemedicine platforms. Telemedicine is not inherently accessible, and mandating its use leaves many older adults without access to their medical care,” the researchers say. “We

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

Situational Leadership In The Technology Sector In large part, technology companies live on the cutting edge and continually need to reinvent themselves in order to survive and prosper. As such, technology companies in particular need to foster a culture where “high skill and high will” have the license to be creative.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 28, 2020

million people, or roughly 40% of the entire Latino workforce in those six states, are at high risk of having their work displaced by technology. Invest in broadband access and programs that connect Latinos with digital technologies. In total, they believe over 7.1 As such, they warn that as the economy recovers, jobs may not return.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Businesses that are serious about reducing health care costs — and improving the health and well-being of their employees — should take a serious look at digital therapeutics, which have the potential to provide effective, low-cost ways to prevent and treat chronic diseases and their consequences. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

In my 20 years of researching and teaching innovation, one consistent theme stands out: breakthrough innovation often comes from outsiders. To accelerate innovation in healthcare technology we need to give creative people who don’t have traditional health science backgrounds more opportunities to participate.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

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. Transforming Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2018

health care system. The reason: It could liberate health care data for game-changing new uses, including empowering patients as never before. Let them share it with whomever they wish in the course of their own health care journey. Health Care’s New Frontier. Insight Center.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 14, 2019

When you think of AI in healthcare it’s perhaps common to think of software products that can help provide the kind of earlier diagnoses promoted by companies like DeepMind and IBM. A new approach to these technologies would address the need for the algorithms to learn and adapt when used in the real world,” the FDA say. “It

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The project, undertaken by South African civic technology company Grassroots, is believed to be the first training course delivered entirely on WhatsApp. A new project from MIT Governance Lab has tested the platform in an educational capacity. The course is designed to improve the leadership skills of community organizers. .

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The researchers believe their findings are important, as this decline has often been attributed to factors such as global trade, reduced union power, or technological change (or a combination of all). This then flows down into the workforce of those companies, as profits tend to be lower.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

No matter how many creative solutions we drum up to improve quality of care and service in the U.S. health system, they won’t do much good if only a few clinicians and institutions know about them and apply them.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

But ongoing changes in policy, technology, and industry culture are now creating unprecedented opportunities for those with just the right kind of crazy. In our group at Merck, we are witnessing this opportunity firsthand as we collaborate with start-ups in the areas of digital health, big data, and health IT.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Every CEO of a large company worries about the small competitor that will come from behind and change everything. That’s why leaders of large healthcare companies are looking over their shoulder and thinking, “What is that small startup that is going to shake up our industry? What makes it work for our company?

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CO2

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Our nation is in need of answers on just about every front: health-care, terrorism, ethnic rifts, Iraq, financial industry concerns, the home foreclosure epidemic, infectious diseases, and climate change. Of course, Obama does know more about health care than most, if not everyone, at a given town hall meeting.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Editor's note: This post is the first in a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Supposedly, everyone working in health care wants the same thing: to help people get and stay healthy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

That reality was made painfully clear in mid-May, when a cyberattacker using WannaCry ransomware crippled health care institutions and many other kinds of organizations around the world. In 2015 over 113 million Americans health records were exposed, and in 2016 the number was over 16 million, according to reports submitted to the U.S.

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CO2

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Our nation is in need of answers on just about every front: health-care, terrorism, ethnic rifts, Iraq, financial industry concerns, the home foreclosure epidemic, infectious diseases, and climate change. Of course, Obama does know more about health care than most, if not everyone, at a given town hall meeting.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The company begins with a goal, such as safely carrying 250 passengers nonstop from New York to London in under six hours, and follows a disciplined approach to identify the components and subsystems that meet those requirements. Doctors and nurses feel as though they’re serving technology, not the other way around.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Its success demonstrates the potential of digital health services, and its approach can serve as a model for applying such services to other chronic diseases. DPPs typically include in-person meetings of a small group of prediabetic adults who, with the guidance of a health coach, progress through a diet and lifestyle curriculum.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The landscape for the delivery of health care in the United States is changing, but the traditional care-delivery players are not the change agents. The ramifications for traditional care providers typically dominated by hospitals is going to be big and may happen fast. Carol Yepes/Getty Images. But back to the insurers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

For decades, experts and policy wonks have argued that health care is a uniquely inefficient industry, insulated from conventional market forces that operate in the rest of the economy. Poorly performing hospitals do not feel pressure from patients to improve quality because standard market forces do not apply to health care.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Army’s efforts to come to grips with a dramatic upsurge in war-related behavioral conditions over the past 13 years holds valuable lessons for bringing precision mental health care to the civilian world. Innovating for Value in Health Care. million to 3.3 Between 2007 and 2011, more than $2.5 Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2018

An estimated 14% of wasted health care spending — $91 billion — is the result of inefficient administration. Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. That’s always a risk with new technology. That’s right: faxes.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

We invest billions of dollars each year in medicines, new technologies, doctors, and hospitals—all with the goal of improving health, arguably our most prized commodity. health care system woefully underperform relative to those made in health care in other countries. Yet, investments in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Health insurance companies are uniquely positioned to save the day in our ailing health system. Yes, you heard me correctly: health insurers. Health insurers — or “payers” — are reviled nearly universally. Offer options for low-cost, convenient care.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

But in health care, few things work as expected. One big reason why is that hospitals purchase technologies without requiring that they communicate with each other. Health care’s safety and quality challenges are exacerbated by its procurement problem. Health care is woefully underengineered.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

I also learned that Enterasys provides network services to companies like the New England Patriots and the Boston Celtics. To date, CCChampions is working with over 6,000 professional athletes plus health care professionals, child psychologists, local students and community partners. Needless to say, we really hit it off.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

Now, healthcare companies are experimenting with digital capabilities to see if they can encourage a similar level of influence in people’s lives. For example, digital technology company Omada Health helps individuals lose weight and prevent diabetes through online behavioral counseling. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

In health care, the Hippocratic Oath — “first, do no harm” — can hold as much sway in the board room as it does in the exam room. Among health care leadership, it can have the unintended effect of promoting inaction over change and innovation. health care has become akin to a smothered child—stifled and arrested.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Some business pundits today believe innovation ignites better in startups than in large, established corporations. They believe big companies are weighed down by their own success, too invested in the past to create and execute new ideas. Corporations like these have the assets, resources, and capabilities necessary to fuel innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

Physicians, nurses, and others who work on the front lines of patient care are an important potential source for innovations that could improve patients’ health and reduce the cost of care. Boston Children’s Hospital designed an innovation accelerator to overcome these hurdles. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

Nearly 800 digital health startups were funded in 2017, an all-time high. Each of the new companies offers the hope of transforming the performance of the U.S. health care system. Yet, despite their stated enthusiasm, hospitals have been notoriously slow to adopt digital innovations. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

Something similar is just starting to happen in health care. Take my company, athenahealth. health-care industry in action, one billing claim or specialist referral at a time. As a result, we can rapidly innovate and improve our products. We can peer into our network and get an up-close view of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

That is, why bother trying to innovate if no matter what they do, large companies can no longer maintain a sustainable advantage and their life spans are just getting shorter and shorter? But other fields, like mining, construction, agriculture, and many types of manufacturing, have been largely ignored by start-up companies.

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