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Simple Digital Technologies Can Reduce Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

Digital therapeutics are technology-based solutions that have a clinical impact on disease comparable to that of a drug. They primarily use consumer-grade technology such as mobile devices, wearable sensors, big data analytics, and behavioral science and can be delivered through web browsers, apps, or in conjunction with medical devices.

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

Atomic Object, a software company in Michigan, put in place a standing-only rule in meetings, to keep them focused and short. In terms of building something new, consider the notion of task-sourcing and hyperspecialization. Such decrees are risky; by forcing people out of their daily routine, you are bound to upset a few of them.

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How Brigham & Women’s Funds Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

One of the biggest challenges in health care is how to provide innovative, high technology specialty care while reining in costs at the same time. Improving the transition to long-term acute care rehab. But it needn’t always be. Here’s how we did it. 2) What is their proposed solution?