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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business

Designers often embrace quantity and speed of idea generation, with quick-and-dirty prototyping; clinicians, cautious, precise, and scientific in their approach to problem solving, can seem rigid and bureaucratic by comparison. Establishing appropriate performance metrics and assigning attribution.

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How Health Care Providers Can Help End the Overprescription of Opioids

Harvard Business

By any metric, opioid-related overdoses in the United States have reached epidemic proportions. This requires investments in data infrastructure and health information technology to measure real-time opioid prescribing patterns. Bjarte Rettedal/Getty Images.

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Are You Accurately Measuring Your Company’s Digital Strength?

Harvard Business

But traditional metrics might underestimate the impact of digital, leaving companies vulnerable to aggressive competitors or pure-play disruptors. Our findings: A number of digital metrics, or signals, that aren’t widely tracked today are very strong predictors of revenue growth and share price. Digital momentum.

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