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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

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Director Recruitment and Skills. Recruiting directors with technological expertise is one avenue through which boards can boost their innovative capabilities. banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Healthcare (e.g., food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g.,

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The Promise and Challenge of Big Data for Pharma

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To be sure, anonymized insurance-claims data and electronic health record (EHR) data has been accessed and analyzed for many years. Historically, the pharmaceutical industry has recruited SAS programmers who have executed well-defined analyses of clinical trials in a standardized, efficient manner.

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