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Why Addressing Social Factors Could Improve U.S. Health Care

WEBOne animating factor behind the current discussion over social determinants of health is the rise of U.S. health care costs — projected to increase an average of 5.5% per year from 2018 to 2027

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How Can AI Improve Health Care

WEBWharton professors explain how AI elevates health care practices, from prescription reminders to emergency triage. Wharton professors Hamsa Bastani and Marissa King join Eric Bradlow, vice dean of

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What Drives Innovation in Health Care

WEBWhat Drives Innovation in Health Care? July 10, 2015 • 7 min read. Hospitals and academic medical centers are hiring chief innovation officers to transform the way they deliver care.

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Medical Innovation: When Do the Costs Outweigh the Benefits

WEBSticker Shock. In May 2012, Wharton health care management professor Ezekiel Emanuel blasted Intuitive’s da Vinci system in a New York Times editorial as “a pseudo-innovation — a technology

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How Does Your Financial Wellbeing Shape Your Health Outcomes

WEBKenneth Shropshire. Kenneth L. Shropshire, faculty director of Wharton’s Coalition for Equity and Opportunity (CEO), is joined by Wharton professor Guy David, Dr. Fareeda Griffith, CEO managing

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Images of Illness: OneWorld Health Strives to Heal the World's …

WEBSetting up the world’s first non-profit pharmaceutical company hasn’t been easy, says Victoria Hale, founder and CEO of the Institute of OneWorld Health (IOWH), based in San Francisco. The

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How Public-private Partnerships Can Boost Innovation in Health Care

WEBKnowledge at Wharton Staff. Public-private partnerships (P3) are one of the most promising models for financing successful health care innovations, note many observers. By combining public

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Looking for Solutions in a Rapidly Changing Health Care …

WEBLooking for Solutions in a Rapidly Changing Health Care Environment March 28, 2012 • 13 min read. While the U.S. health care system is not yet on life support, it remains a fragmented and

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How Do We Control the Rising Costs of Health Care

WEBDan Loney. 00:00. 00:00. Listen to the podcast. Wharton professor of health care management Lawton Robert Burns joins the show to talk about tactics that can be used to lower drug prices and why

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The Business of Healthcare Innovation: How New Products Come …

WEBKnowledge at Wharton Podcast The Business of Healthcare Innovation: How New Products Come to Market May 3, 2006 • 8 min listen. When Lawton Robert Burns, Wharton professor of health care systems

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How New York City’s Public Health Care System Responded to …

WEBEvery day for three months, we would hold Tiger Team Briefings to ascertain the needs of the entire health care system. After a system-wide intelligence report focusing on trends around COVID-19

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What’s Driving Health Insurers’ Merger Mania

WEBWhat’s Driving Health Insurers’ Merger Mania? June 23, 2015 • 11 min read. The new health care landscape is fueling consolidation for hospitals, physicians groups -- and now insurers.

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Health Care’s Compassion Crisis: Caring Makes a Difference

WEBCompassion in health care seems like it should be a given. Doctors enter the demanding field of medicine because they want to help people, and patients want physicians who care deeply about their

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How Hospitals Can Harness the Power of Digital Transformation

WEB00:00. 00:00. Wharton’s Hummy Song talks with Wharton Business Daily on SiriusXM about how hospitals can leverage technology in their operational decision-making. More than a half-million health

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The Benefits, and Potential Side Effects, of Sharing Medical …

WEBOn October 4, Microsoft launched HealthVault, a free web-based service that allows users to store their medical records online and eventually share them with doctors and health care professionals.

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One Way to Lower Health Costs: Pay People to Be Healthy

WEBAccording to the Centers for Disease Control, each adult smoker costs employers $1,760 in lost productivity and $1,623 in excess medical spending annually. “We still have 85% that didn’t quit

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China’s Health Care Reform: The Focus Shifts to Basic Health Care

WEBOn April 6, the Chinese government published the details of its long-awaited health care reform plan: It will spend RMB 850 billion (US$124 billion) over the next three years to extend health care

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Why You Need a Financial Health Day

WEBLike a mental health day, a financial health day offers the chance to disconnect from the daily pressures of life to focus on the task at hand, relaxed and without judgment. Open that college fund

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How Cuba’s Health Care Sector Aims to Gain a Greater Foothold

WEBHealth City Cayman Islands is an hour and 20 minutes by plane south of Miami. It’s a high-tech tertiary care hospital that opened in March 2014 with multidisciplinary clinical and diagnostic

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