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Overcoming Fragmentation in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

More work is needed to achieve the drastic change in market forces that is necessary to create a sustainable health care system. We believe that fragmentation and variability in care may best be addressed by creating tools to share knowledge than can be used by providers as they care for patients in their own communities.

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Why Do Great Ideas Take So Long to Spread?

Harvard Business Review

Watts has demonstrated, in numerous studies that explore everything from how certain songs become popular to how marketing works, that we are very good at telling stories to ourselves that sound true (e.g. Data are hoarded, scientists refuse to collaborate, and grudges can play a role in peer review. Plank's Principle).