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What Prompts Us To Use Mental Health Chatbots

The Horizons Tracker

New research from North Carolina State University and Syracuse University explores some of the motivating factors behind people’s use of chatbot technology for mental health care. “We saw a sharp increase in mass shootings in the U.S.

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For U.S. Employers, Health Care Reform Is a Watching and Waiting Game

Harvard Business Review

Understanding the implementation plans for the health care law passed in 2010 is a complicated job for even the most seasoned policy wonks. These logistics took a sharp new turn last week when the Obama administration decided to delay enforcing mandatory employer and insurer employment requirements until 2015. What happens next?

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Making the Turn: 10 Warning Signs You aren’t Shifting from Founder to Leader

N2Growth Blog

To reach and stay at the top of their game, every elite athlete continues to practice, keep their skills sharp, and grow their capacity to win. He holds a BA in Philosophy and History from Colorado College and an MBA in Health Care Administration from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. We know that.

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The Best Way to Improve Health Care Delivery Is with a Small, Dedicated Team

Harvard Business Review

Spurred by new payment models and new incentives, health systems are increasing their commitments to innovation in health care delivery. These innovations take the form of small but full-time clinical teams that are commissioned to redesign and deliver care to a particular patient population. The pathology is as follows.

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Giving Seriously Ill Patients More Choices About Their Care

Harvard Business Review

Nearly everyone in health care wants to cut waste and reduce unnecessary costs — until the conversation turns to advanced chronic illness and end-of-life care. Fears about “pulling the plug on granny,” no matter how ill she may be, have slowed progress toward value-based care. Insight Center.

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Listening Is a Lost Art in Medicine. Here’s How to Rediscover It

Harvard Business Review

They are also more likely to be publicly insured, have fair-to-poor self-reported health, and be susceptible to lack of coordination within the health care system.” ” Overall, these patients make up just 5% of the patient population, but account for nearly half the spending on health care in the United States.

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Why Hospitals Need Better Data Science

Harvard Business Review

These examples are relevant to health care for two reasons. Health care providers can’t keep spending their way out of trouble by investing in more and more infrastructure; instead, they must optimize their use of the assets currently in place. Transforming Health Care. Insight Center.