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

Harvard Business

The Oregon registry, for example, was developed by private philanthropy, but its operations are now funded by the state, with a planned endowment in the works. Indeed, the Medicare Hospital Insurance (Part A) trust fund is projected to be depleted by 2029. Another comparable effort is the U.S.

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Competing in the Huge Digital Economies of China and India

Harvard Business

. — and Tencent, through its popular messaging platform, WeChat, have become enormous repositories of user data, with which they can better design and target new services, discern key user attributes, such as credit-worthiness, and train algorithms. They also help the government with necessary data and algorithms.