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Can Education Be Delivered Via WhatsApp?

The Horizons Tracker

The team chose WhatsApp as it’s a commonly used, and therefore familiar, platform for people to use to exchange rich media, without concerns about location or connectivity. They also wanted to provide a low bandwidth option for areas that lack strong internet connectivity. WhatsApp-based training.

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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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The Innovation Health Care Really Needs: Help People Manage Their Own Health

Harvard Business Review

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. health care keeps getting costlier.

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Three Simple Tips to Start Solving Problems in Your Business Today

Steve Farber

He’s used it in agriculture, health care, energy, and just about every other business context you can imagine. My client’s list, for instance, would include things like the internet, computers, their website, their referral network, their employees, and earned media opportunities. And guess what?

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Stop Decorating the Fish

Skip Prichard

For example, we can see data dashboards, organization charts, spreadsheets, new strategic plans, or the latest new technology trend bouncing around social media. Instead, we suggest looking at the underlying processes, incentives, or policies that are driving the behaviors we want to change.

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The Harvard Contest That’s Trying to Improve Health Care Delivery

Harvard Business Review

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

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Technology Is Helping Shape the Future of Health Care - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DELL AND INTEL®

Harvard Business Review

Just as technology is giving providers more ways to care for and engage their patients in a variety of places, it is also providing the means for governments to reach people with health care information, businesses to tailor wellness programs for their workforce, and people to take charge of their own health.