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How Digital Health Care Can Help Prevent Chronic Diseases Like Diabetes

Harvard Business Review

Transforming Health Care. To ensure that the motivating relationships and connections in traditional DPP programs did not disappear when a digital platform replaced the in-person meeting element, Omada grouped participants and health coaches into cohorts based on where they live. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Black Professional Men Describe What It’s Like to Be in the Gender Majority but the Racial Minority

Harvard Business Review

These are important findings that give some insight into how race and gender operate together to yield specific outcomes for black women. ” Yet with so few other black professional men being in these spaces, opportunities to bond and form allegiances are often infrequent.

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Understanding the Drivers of the Patient Experience

Harvard Business Review

Many hospitals, including the Cleveland Clinic , are implementing a variety of strategies to improve the patient experience —an issue that’s rapidly becoming a top priority in health care. The Accountable Care Act now links performance related to patient-experience metrics to reimbursement.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business Review

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. PM Images/Getty Images.

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The Happiest People Pursue the Most Difficult Problems

Harvard Business Review

Similarly, Procter & Gamble''s Pampers team in Nigeria find happiness facing the problem of infant mortality and devising solutions, such as mobile clinics that sent a physician and two nurses to areas lacking access to health care. Social bonds and a feeling of membership augment the meaning that comes from values-based work.

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Why the Decline in Corporate Statesmanship?

Harvard Business Review

American corporations operated in a very different environment in the postwar period. A form of low-grade debt known as "junk bonds" provided a new source of funds. What was the source of this corporate statesmanship, and why has it largely disappeared? Organized labor was strong in the private sector.

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What Happens After You’re Forced to Resign

Harvard Business Review

Becoming Invisible As Objects Go Online Foreign Affairs The future of the Internet of Things is bright, especially in areas such as energy, health care, weather, and making cities more livable.

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