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The Promise and Challenge of Big Data for Pharma

Harvard Business

For example, the analysis of comprehensive EHR patient data collected in real time during doctor or hospital visits provides an opportunity to better understand diseases, treatment patterns, and clinical outcomes in an uncontrolled, real-world setting. Insight Center. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Why It’s So Hard to Train Someone to Make an Ethical Decision

Harvard Business

Take the decision of Sam Waksal, the former CEO of the emerging biotechnology company ImClone Systems. ” Finally, unlike in training, when a single decision might be given an hour of careful analysis, most actual decisions are made quickly and rely on intuition rather than careful, reflective reasoning.

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