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Making Better Use of Health Care Data

Harvard Business Review

At Sanford Health, a $4.5 billion rural integrated health care system, we deliver care to over 2.5 Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Improving Access to Care. Sven Krobot/EyeEm/Getty Images. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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How CFOs Can Take the Long-Term View in a Short-Term Economy

Harvard Business Review

Investors are increasingly seeking firms with long-term growth strategies, rather than ones focused on managing short-term earnings to boost the stock price. trillion in holdings, Fink in February sent a letter to the CEOs of all S&P 500 companies that essentially cut the Gordian knot of short-termism.

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Companies for Social Good

Women on Business

Those able to get preventative medical care will be healthier and miss less days from work. Putting parks in communities means children can exercise, reducing childhood obesity and long term health issues of an adult working population. According to the study the company saved $12.1

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Health Care Is an Investment, and the U.S. Should Start Treating It Like One

Harvard Business Review

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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4 Steps to Sustaining Improvement in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

No one wants to toil away at a health care improvement effort only to see that progress disappear as systems and processes revert to the old way of doing things. Leading health care organizations recognize that improving care isn’t enough; having a systematic approach to sustaining improvement is equally important.

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Simple Digital Technologies Can Reduce Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

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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The Case for Innovation in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Provide financial security against the costs of ill-health. US health care costs are currently 17% of GDP ($2.5