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

Harvard Business

Indeed, the Medicare Hospital Insurance (Part A) trust fund is projected to be depleted by 2029. It offers a validated curriculum for training nonphysicians to facilitate advance care planning. Medicare accounted for 15% of the federal government’s budget in 2016 and is projected to rise to 17.5%

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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.