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Keeping Human Stories at the Center of Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Caring for the health and well-being of our fellow humans has always been viewed as a combination of art and science. With all the recent advances in technology, there is no doubt the health care industry as a whole gets an “A” in science. Some dysfunction may always exist in our health care systems.

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One Hospital’s Experiments in Virtual Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Few recent trends in health care delivery have more power to improve population health, patient and provider experience, and hospital business models than virtual care. Which technology tools will meet the demographic, clinical, and business needs for these services? Innovating for Value in Health Care.

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Fixing Health Care Will Require More than a New Payment System

Harvard Business Review

These individual objectives are also aligned with larger organizational goals to ensure team members are prioritizing effectively. Invest in technologies that promote efficiency and transparency. We are already seeing ROI in terms of less waste of time, energy, and resources, which directly connects to effective care delivery.

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The Big Picture of Business – Collaborations, Partnering and Joint-Venturing… Priority for Business.

Strategy Driven

Teams of health care professionals, as found in clinics and hospitals. Corporations working with public sector and non-profit organizations to achieve mutual goals in the communities. Here are some examples of Joint-Venturing: Producers of energy create an independent drilling or marketing entity.

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Predictive Medicine Depends on Analytics

Harvard Business Review

It’s only recently, though, that advances in information technology have made it possible for predictive tools to access and manipulate big data, and to do so continuously — accelerating the generation of insights, and opening up opportunities to anticipate issues with unprecedented precision. The positions are there for the taking.

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Healthcare, Paradigm Shifts and the Influence of W.E. Deming

Deming Institute

My goal was to find out why this body of knowledge seemed to be absent. Beginning with the formation phase at the bottom, lower left-hand corner, where diversity of ideas (worldviews) seeds a new pattern of organization by tapping an energy build-up. 
 In fragility zone #2 the worldview and organization begins to lose energy.

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Little Data Makes Big Data More Powerful

Harvard Business Review

But thanks to the combination of mobile, social, and cloud technologies, it''s easier than ever to gain insight into our own behavior. As an example, consider the emerging field of mobile health. The associated mobile app gives feedback, encouragement, and rewards as you reach your goals. How much activity should I be getting?

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