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Future of Healthcare: Virtual and Augmented Reality

Tom Spencer

Currently engineers, physicians, other healthcare providers, and educators are working to create innovative ways to apply these immersive technologies in order to transform clinical teaching and practice. The main focus of any change to healthcare is to improve patient outcomes. 2, 2011, pp. Patient Care and Outcomes.

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Why The Best Hospitals Are Managed by Doctors

Harvard Business

Healthcare has become extraordinarily complex — the balance of quality against cost, and of technology against humanity, are placing ever-increasing demands on clinicians. The emphasis on patient-centered care and efficiency in the delivery of clinical outcomes means that physicians are now being prepared for leadership.

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Building a Direct-to-Consumer Strategy Without Alienating Your Distributors

Harvard Business

These relationships can create efficient new sales channels and powerful feedback mechanisms or unlock entirely new business models. Starting in 2011, Mercedes chose to develop direct distribution capabilities for electric bicycle sales under its Smart brand. Three Images/Getty Images.

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How to Get Health Care Employees Onboard with Change

Harvard Business

In healthcare, change is even harder than in most industries. In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. Insight Center.

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Augmented Reality Is Already Improving Worker Performance

Harvard Business

These technologies increase productivity by making workers more skilled and efficient, and thus have the potential to yield both more economic growth and better jobs. per year from 2011 to 2016, compared to 3% from 1996 to 2005, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In the United States productivity growth averaged just 0.5%

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

Harvard Business

Between 2007 and 2011, more than $2.5 Practice managers can more efficiently and effectively use their providers to meet the needs of their patient base. But even well short of centralization, individual health systems can draw on the Army’s experience to improve precision of mental healthcare. million to 3.3

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

In 2011, Oliver Wyman ranked 7th in Vault’s Consulting 50 (combining “best to work for” and overall prestige). Actuarial – works with companies to to manage property and casualty, life and annuity, and healthcare risks. They have served Global 1000 clients over the past 40 years.