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Hospital Budget Systems Are Holding Back Innovation

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health care system. Explanations include their IT departments already have their hands full installing, maintaining, and upgrading electronic health record (EHR) systems. But much of the blame can be attributed to hospitals’ misaligned budgeting and incentive systems. Gillian Blease/Getty Images. Insight Center.

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The Largest Risk (and Opportunity) Investors Are Ignoring

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Journalist Justin Gillis wrote about the risk of “severe economic disruption” and “wildly expensive” solutions — ones that may not even exist — if we don’t leverage existing technologies to shift the global economy away from carbon over the next 15 years. Talk of potential risk to humanity is not new. coal market. coal market.

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Can We Quantify the Value of Connected Devices?

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They institutionalized the use of data collection systems in their manufacturing facilities to understand how products and machines would “behave” and could be optimized. Combining these creates a P&L and a projection, which through a discounted cash flow analysis yields an NPV, which can be used to assess valuation.