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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. As far-fetched as these scenarios may seem, they are closer to reality than you might think. Medical Student and Resident Training.

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When Companies Want to Innovate, But Investors Won’t Let Them

Harvard Business

Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets. Yet, time and again, they have struggled to innovate with new and disruptive technologies. Investors affect innovation investments. Simon McGill/Getty Images. In theory, investor incentives align with what is good for the firm.

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Technology Is Changing What a Premium Automotive Brand Looks Like

Harvard Business

The traditional drivers of brand premium are being joined (and to varying degrees supplanted) by newer, tech-enabled variables: software, interactive products, digital interactions, immersive experiences, and predictive services, to name a few. Data-Driven Marketing. Marketing and sales: offline vs. online. Insight Center.

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From Wearables To Telemedicine To Direct-To-Consumer Prescriptions, Here’s How Healthcare Is Becoming Consumer-Centric

SkillQuo

Article Credit: CB Insights. High deductible plans and new technologies are turning patients into savvy healthcare consumers, with higher expectations around service and experience. Companies are positioning themselves to take advantage of this shift. In healthcare, that change has come more slowly. TABLE OF CONTENTS. MOBILE TAKES OFF.

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Why Business Leaders Need to Read More Science Fiction

Harvard Business

Singapore has overtaken Silicon Valley as the world’s innovation hub after FDA regulation prompts a brain drain from California. Rising sea levels flood Manhattan in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 , prompting hedge fund managers and real estate investors to create a new intertidal market index.

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The 4 Dimensions of Digital Trust, Charted Across 42 Countries

Harvard Business

Here are some of our initial findings, drawn from the study, “Digital Planet 2017: How Competitiveness and Trust in Digital Economies Vary Across the World.” Fanatic Studio/Getty Images. The year 2018 is barely underway and, already, digital trust initiatives have captured headlines. ” Trust Eases Friction.

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9 Sustainable Business Stories That Shaped 2016

Harvard Business

The context for sustainable business in 2017 may center on the competition between these two stories; that is, how will Trump and his team impact or impede progress on climate and other sustainability issues? In 2016, two dwarf the rest: the election of Donald Trump and significant action on climate change. This is all promising. In the U.S.,

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