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How Health Care Providers Can Ensure Patients’ End-of-Life Wishes Are Known

Harvard Business

Some health systems, such as the University of Michigan, have developed protocols that would alert providers with EMR advisories of incomplete ACPs so that they can give patients advance-directive packets to fill out at home or with the help of a social worker. Here are our recommendations. Build a national registry.

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Competing in the Huge Digital Economies of China and India

Harvard Business

In our Digital Evolution Index (DEI), we place them in the “digital south” which means the full deployment and adoption of online systems is still in development. Our DEI research classifies both China and India as “Break Out” countries, which means they are experiencing strong digital growth.