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WHE21: Can Behavioral Economics Solve Your Company’s Health Care Problems? | with Derek Yach from Vitality Institute

Engaging Leader

In particular, the still-evolving field of behavioral economics provides opportunities for employers to use evidence-based strategies to improve the health of their workforce. Choice architecture (especially a healthy “default” if no choice is taken) Tools to make healthful choices easier than unhealthy choices.

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Fixing the Gender Imbalance in Health Care Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Evaluation thus far suggests that the Charter has increased awareness of gender and other diversity issues, created numerical and financial incentives for change, and catalyzed structural and cultural changes, such as increased career support for female researchers. The Future of Health Care. Insight Center.

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How to Partner with Outside Innovators in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. For example, research institutions could create expertise pools and consortia for sharing intellectual resources, and develop incentives for sharing the physical assets of science such as laboratories and equipment.

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How to Reduce Primary Care Doctors’ Workloads While Improving Care

Harvard Business Review

Not long ago, many services such as tax accounting were delivered episodically and in-person, as most health care still is today. Health care has proved resistant to a similar transition, although everyone would benefit. The ideas have also been embraced by public policy makers, health plans, and the general public.

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Salespeople have questions. Jeffrey has answers.

Strategy Driven

Dear Jeffrey, My company delivers mobile dictation and transcription service to field workers in IT and health care, saving these people time in reporting. You must attract them with reputation, range of salary and incentives, and social proof that you’re great. Somebody obviously did. Best regards, Jeffrey. Go Phillies!

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Companies Should Take the Lead in Fixing the Middle-Skills Gap

Harvard Business Review

The evidence points to the potential for improving disadvantaged workers' career prospects more than traditional offerings from the U.S. It has trained more than 700 unskilled and displaced workers for well-paid jobs with defined career ladders in the biotech and health care sectors.

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Conflict-of-Interest Rules Are Holding Back Medical Breakthroughs

Harvard Business Review

During our careers, we have worked in industry, academia, clinical medicine, and government and have managed successful academia-industry collaborations. The Leading Edge of Health Care. For academics, publishing and obtaining grants are key to promotion and career advancement. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.