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Future of Healthcare: Virtual and Augmented Reality

Tom Spencer

Currently engineers, physicians, other healthcare providers, and educators are working to create innovative ways to apply these immersive technologies in order to transform clinical teaching and practice. As far-fetched as these scenarios may seem, they are closer to reality than you might think. Medical Student and Resident Training.

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From Wearables To Telemedicine To Direct-To-Consumer Prescriptions, Here’s How Healthcare Is Becoming Consumer-Centric

SkillQuo

High deductible plans and new technologies are turning patients into savvy healthcare consumers, with higher expectations around service and experience. In healthcare, that change has come more slowly. Trends enabling the consumerization of healthcare. It’s no secret that healthcare costs are going up. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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Personalized Recommendation Engines Are Coming to Health Care

Harvard Business

Now, healthcare companies are experimenting with digital capabilities to see if they can encourage a similar level of influence in people’s lives. Healthcare innovations like these raise intriguing possibilities. For starters, the data fueling digitally focused healthcare companies remains fairly limited in scope.

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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business

Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. Beyond wages, other forms of investment in human capital include education and training, improved healthcare, and other, less obvious investments, such as the time and space to explore new ideas and professional development opportunities. And wages are stagnant.

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To Get Consumers to Trust AI, Show Them Its Benefits

Harvard Business

In order to understand trust in the relationship between humans and automation, we have to explore trust in two dimensions: trust in the technology and trust in the innovating firm. Too many high-tech companies wrongly assume that the quality of the technology alone will influence people to use it. Insight Center. The Age of AI.

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This Pharma Company Stays Innovative by Doing Two Things

Harvard Business

For industries that depend on innovation, sustaining it is a constant challenge. These two actions cost almost nothing compared to vast sums often spent — and arguably, often wasted — on efforts to foster innovation. Yet they have already generated tens of millions of dollars in value for Roivant.

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Keeping Human Stories at the Center of Health Care

Harvard Business

A mentor told me early in my career that only 20% of healing involves the high-tech stuff. Let’s develop an up-front “technology ROI” that measures workflow impact, inefficiency, hassle and impact on physician and nurse well-being. VCG/Getty Images. It’s time for that to change. Insight Center.

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