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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

While this “lab-bench to bedside” approach has improved healthcare globally, it can take years, even decades, for an innovation to get to market, often with limited input from patients themselves. Patients are co-designers, co-developers, and increasingly more responsible for their own and collective health outcomes.

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The Decline of the Rural American Hospital and How to Reverse It

Harvard Business Review

Our research — we’ve interviewed executives and care providers at numerous health-care organizations and written a case study on telemedicine — suggests that telemedicine promises to upend health-care markets where supply and demand are out of balance. Disruptive innovation Information & technology Health Healthcare'

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Artificial Intelligence Is Almost Ready for Business

Harvard Business Review

Rather than take the cutting edge capabilities developed in its research labs to market as a series of products, IBM has chosen to offer a platform of services under the Watson brand. Information & technology' With training, Watson can provide recommendations for treatments for specific patients.