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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. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum. How the most innovative providers are creating value.

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What Happens to Mental Health at Work When Our Devices Know How We Feel?

Harvard Business Review

Transforming Health Care. Will we get to a point where disconnecting depressed or anxious people from their digital diagnostics is seen as ethically or medically irresponsible? Similarly, to what extent do workplace analytics impact and influence progress with their mental health? Insight Center.

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Predict What Employees Will Do Without Freaking Them Out

Harvard Business Review

Marketing often influences consumers through unconscious habits, as described in Charles Duhigg’s book, “ The Power of Habit.” Consider the potential to influence employee behaviors in arenas such as employee benefits, health care and wellness. In the rush to ask “What can HR analytics predict?”

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Predict What Employees Will Do Without Freaking Them Out

Harvard Business Review

Marketing often influences consumers through unconscious habits, as described in Charles Duhigg’s book, “ The Power of Habit.” Consider the potential to influence employee behaviors in arenas such as employee benefits, health care and wellness. 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.