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Healthcare Paradigm Shift: Emphasis on Outpatient Care

Tom Spencer

Now that health systems are aware of the need to expand their outpatient services and understand some of the benefits of doing so, they are working to incorporate outpatient care into their overall strategy. His free moments are spent traveling and enjoying sporting events with his wife and daughter. Attracting new physicians.

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Robot Truck Convoy Tests in Nevada; Driverless Trucks Before Cars, and Before the End of the Decade

MishTalk

The technology, developed by Peloton Tech, uses radar and a wireless link so that the following trucks travel at the same speed, braking simultaneously for safety, and doing so on an automated system that doesn''t have the delays of human reaction time. It now seems very likely, if not a given.

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How Digital Health Care Can Help Prevent Chronic Diseases Like Diabetes

Harvard Business

million adults in the United States with high blood sugar levels in danger of developing type 2 diabetes. One of the barriers to getting prediabetics to participate in these in-person programs is the time and expense required to travel to and attend them. In addition there are 84.1 Emphasis on outcomes.

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How disruptive is the 'Sharing Economy'?

freshminds

Vertical and horizontal expansion – Existing sharing economy services will expand to capture other parts of the sectors in which they already play through developing a broader range of services both horizontally (e.g. If Google can offer lower prices to customers, Uber may struggle to compete.

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How to Handle Work When Your Child Is Sick

Harvard Business

While there’s no silver bullet, the good news is that with a few specific strategies for managing your colleagues, care arrangement, and yes, yourself, you can mitigate the situation, and make it through these roughest patches of working parenthood in one physical, emotional, and professional piece. Telecommute?

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Return of the Buggy Whip; Streetcar Named Imprudent

MishTalk

At the peak of streetcar travel in the mid-1920s, some 800 streetcars covering 200 miles of track carried 97 million passenger trips a year. The part of the puzzle that still needs development is the software. The goal is safer travel, fewer traffic delays, and a better understanding of how to automate vehicles.

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Tomorrow’s Factories Will Need Better Processes, Not Just Better Robots

Harvard Business

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. For instance, in the BMW plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, processing a car through the paint shop is a 12-hour task, involving more than 100 robots, and requiring a vehicle in the paint assembly line to travel four miles within the factory before the process is complete. Insight Center.