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How NASA Uses Telemedicine to Care for Astronauts in Space

Harvard Business Review

There is careful consideration of the “mission profile,” a broad set of factors that influence health and medical needs and risks, such as flight duration, launch and landing modes, medical evacuation capability, and time to definitive medical care. Good communication and rapid learning is essential.

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What the Companies That Predict the Future Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

The information most likely to influence the future comes from looking out the window, not in the mirror. Consider the example of a manufacturer of production equipment that collects sensor-based telemetry about its machines’ operations, the status of their parts, their performance, their resource consumption, and other data.