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Can Education Be Delivered Via WhatsApp?

The Horizons Tracker

” The analysis conducted by the MIT team found that WhatsApp can be an effective medium for online teaching, but only if it’s combined with strong behavioral incentives, an excellent teaching team, and attention to design details is built in from the start.

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Engaging Employees in Health Care Data Security

Harvard Business Review

Consider that in just the first two months of 2018, 24 health care provider organizations reported data breaches affecting over 1,000 patients each, a 60% increase over the same time period last year. Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Insight Center.

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Fixing the Gender Imbalance in Health Care Leadership

Harvard Business Review

As of 2011, organizations must have received at least Silver Awards to qualify for National Institute for Health Research Funding. The Future of Health Care. The program has improved retention rates for mid- and senior-level technical women and increased the number of women considered distinguished engineers.

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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. He’s a tinkerer with a gift for electronics and engineering, and he did not let the typical barriers to medical innovation stand in his way. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Three Simple Tips to Start Solving Problems in Your Business Today

Steve Farber

David Conley found himself on a team of experts who were attempting to design satellite superstructures, a challenge not specifically covered while earning his college degree in nuclear engineering. He’s used it in agriculture, health care, energy, and just about every other business context you can imagine.

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Stop Decorating the Fish

Skip Prichard

Instead, he designed the ideal electric car that could compete with and even outperform combustion engines. Instead, we suggest looking at the underlying processes, incentives, or policies that are driving the behaviors we want to change. There is very little financial incentive for people to change their behavior despite PR campaigns.

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3 Mistakes in U.S. Health Care That Emerging Economies Can’t Afford to Repeat

Harvard Business Review

The health care system in the United States, with its technological prowess and massive infrastructure, often serves as a reference point for rapidly developing economies around the world while they build their own medical systems. One major reason for the rapid cost inflation in health care is burgeoning hospital construction.