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The Joy of Facts

Next Level Blog

Reid talk about what he learned in writing his book about health care, The Healing of America. Reid travelled around the world twice – once on his publisher’s dime and again to film a documentary for PBS – to learn about how health care is delivered in different countries. We have the best health care system in the world.”

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Task Shifting Could Help Lower Costs in U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

This simple idea — that one should match the skill level of the individual to the skill requirements of a task — has influenced how many businesses operate. The task shifting logic also applies to health care. health care. Reverse Innovation in Health Care: How to Make Value-Based Delivery Work.

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Conflict-of-Interest Rules Are Holding Back Medical Breakthroughs

Harvard Business Review

The Leading Edge of Health Care. National Institutes of Health, but the reverse is less clear; biopharmaceutical companies, too, participate in basic research that advances our understanding of mechanisms of disease and treatment. Commonly, researchers develop a theory, then build a career gathering support for it.

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Predict What Employees Will Do Without Freaking Them Out

Harvard Business Review

Will Wolf, the Global Head of Talent Acquisition & Development said that even if employees are not interested in the offered roles, “they are blown away that we’re going out of our way to try to find them something interesting and new.”. Duhigg describes his own habit of buying a cookie in the company cafeteria at 3:30 p.m.

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Predict What Employees Will Do Without Freaking Them Out

Harvard Business Review

Will Wolf, the Global Head of Talent Acquisition & Development said that even if employees are not interested in the offered roles, “they are blown away that we’re going out of our way to try to find them something interesting and new.” ” Creepy? In the rush to ask “What can HR analytics predict?”

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Better Questions to Ask Your Data Scientists

Harvard Business Review

Cerner , a supplier of health care IT solutions, uses data sets from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to supplement their own data. It may also be influenced by latent factors that can be difficult to recognize. Ask if someone has already collected the relevant data and performed analysis.

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When Did the U.S. Stop Seeing Teachers as Professionals?

Harvard Business Review

Poor pay , increased health care costs , and diminished pension plans are certainly core issues — teachers in Oklahoma haven’t received a pay boost in a decade. ” Professionalism demands the capacity to internally organize and protect “professional practices from external influences.”