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New Study Highlights The Poor Usability Of Electronic Medical Record Systems

The Horizons Tracker

It’s a conclusion echoed in a recent study from Yale University, which finds that many health care professionals think EHR systems lack usability and contribute to stress and burnout. Indeed, whereas using Google was given an ‘A’ rating for usability, EHR systems were given a woeful ‘F’ rating. EHRs mimic that.”

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Your Customers’ Behavior Is a Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

” He talked about how stressful and debilitating it was for ticket agents, gate agents, and flight attendants to deal with rude and ill-mannered flyers. Hointer’s salespeople are as much information resources as people who sell. As both a technology and retailer innovator — not unlike Amazon!

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Team Chemistry Is the New Holy Grail of Performance Analytics

Harvard Business Review

But, at his Building a Dynasty panel, Jackson stressed that he was always open to numbers and analyses that offered actionable insight into getting his teams to play better together. George Karl, the 7th coach in NBA history to reach 1000 wins, similarly stressed the need for serious coaches and general managers to quantify “teamness.”

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Ethics for Technologists (and Facebook)

Harvard Business Review

Let me emphatically stress that this experimental heuristic is not a variant of The Golden Rule. Indeed, the rich and controversial history of medical self-experimentation confirms an important bias every organization should know: Innovators are happy to use themselves as guinea pigs and lab rats for their ideas.

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Does Your Leadership Flunk the Testing Test?

Harvard Business Review

Supposedly set to launch this July — and then September — New York City announced that its innovative bike sharing program would be delayed until at least next spring. But the importance and pace of innovation rollouts demand a different design sensibility. Until it works, we're not going to put it in. Jaws dropped.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

The myth of Silicon Valley is that venture-funded entrepreneurship is a generalizable model that can be applied to every problem, when in actuality it is a model that was built to commercialize mature technologies for certain markets. No innovation strategy fits every problem , so we need to keep expanding the toolbox.

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How the U.S. Army Personalized Its Mental Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Innovating for Value in Health Care. Consider the case of a soldier who completes a PTSD screening instrument in which she reports trouble remembering important parts of a stressful experience from the past, but is able to vividly reconstruct the experience in her conversations with the provider. Between 2007 and 2011, more than $2.5