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How Physicians Can Keep Up with the Knowledge Explosion in Medicine

Harvard Business Review

As the Institute of Medicine highlighted in a 2012 report , this gap in knowledge contributes to variation in care and suboptimal outcome. Another strategy is to translate consensus clinical guidelines to standardized practice protocols with clinical decision support algorithms (e.g. Insight Center. Innovating for Value in Health Care.

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Morning Advantage: Heavy Metal Management

Harvard Business Review

Union membership fell in 2012 to its lowest level since 1916, even in the wake of 30 years of wage stagnation, growing income inequality, and cutbacks in pensions and insurance coverage. Leaders of public companies often cite the pressure to meet or beat consensus earnings estimates as justification for a focus on the short term.

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Why Congress Needs to Pass the Innovation Act This Time

Harvard Business Review

Firms who buy up vast swaths of dubious patents and then use them to squeeze settlements out of deep-pocketed (or not) technology companies and their customers troll the federal courtrooms of the Eastern District of Texas, notorious for its excessive jury awards to plaintiffs. Intellectual property Innovation Technology' economy $1.5

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How the U.S. Army Personalized Its Mental Health Care

Harvard Business Review

So during initial rollout from May 2012 through February 2014, we examined 80,000 BHDP surveys in four military-treatment facilities. This combination of clear policy, well-designed technology, and redesigned workflows can come together to enable precision mental healthcare.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

All this represents a considerable turn away from anything resembling a Washington Consensus and towards a more highly managed system favoring preferential terms for developing countries and redistribution over competition and efficiency. This convergence hypothesis is reassuring on many fronts.

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Calculate How Much Your Company Should Invest in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

And the more growth opportunities stretch beyond a company’s current capabilities, the more the company needs to build systems to manage the unique nature of these opportunities (the kind we describe in more depth in our recent article “ Build an Innovation Engine in 90 Days ” and our 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory ).

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5 Ways U.S. Hospitals Can Respond to Medicare’s Mounting Costs

Harvard Business Review

hospitals from treating Medicare patients escalated sharply in 2012, when Congress included Medicare in its budget sequester, and they have remained high since. Lastly, hospitals are continuing to absorb newer technologies that make it possible to perform what historically have been inpatient surgeries in outpatient settings.

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