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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

We have closely studied three of these models: The Helix Center at Imperial College London, the Center for Innovation at the Mayo Clinic, and the Consortium for Medical Technologies at Massachusetts General Hospital. As a result, team optimism and ambition can be wasted on activities that lack focus.

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Computerization in Health Care Demands High Data Standards

Harvard Business Review

On the truly positive side, the Mayo Clinic and UnitedHealth Group have teamed up to form Optum Labs, a research group aimed at mining (initially) claims records for over 100 million people and 5 million clinical records. Recent reports bookend the promise and peril of computerization and the electronic medical record in health care.