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How Physicians Can Keep Up with the Knowledge Explosion in Medicine

Harvard Business Review

Innovating for Value in Health Care. One service, called UpToDate , employs 6,300 physician authors, editors, and peer reviewers to manually review the most recent medical information to produce synopses for practicing doctors. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic. We have already begun to go down this road.

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Simple Digital Technologies Can Reduce Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

Innovating for Value in Health Care. Digital therapeutics are being increasingly validated in clinical trials published in peer-reviewed medical journals and are available or are being developed for most chronic diseases. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic. Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality.

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How Leaders Can Help Others Influence Them

Harvard Business Review

But my peer-review literature search revealed no similar ways to assess how willing leaders are to be influenced or how transparent they are about how they can best be influenced. It’s simply more efficient. I’m asking because I want to use your time and my time efficiently.

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

Marissa Mayer, Yahoo''s CEO, ended the company''s work-from-home policy to foster a more collaborative, innovative environment. While these three approaches are very different, all are forceful ways of pushing people out of their comfort zones to find more efficient ways of working. Lead by example.

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How Brigham & Women’s Funds Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

One of the biggest challenges in health care is how to provide innovative, high technology specialty care while reining in costs at the same time. To date, these innovations have saved an estimated $4 million in annual medical expenses while decisively improving quality. But it needn’t always be. Here’s how we did it.

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Who's the Best at Innovating Innovation?

Harvard Business Review

Most companies put innovation at the top of their agendas. But how many devote the energy and resources it takes to build innovation into the values, processes, and practices that rule everyday activity and behavior? Not many, as we argued when we launched the Innovating Innovation Challenge in October.