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Going Inside the Health Care Ecosystem
Health Care Business Imperative: Functioning at an Increasingly Complicated Intersection with the Patient at the Center of Care
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Fewer Hospital Readmissions? Challenging Pay-for-Performance
J. Michael McWilliams, MD, PhD, the Warren Alpert Foundation Professor of Health Care Policy at the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School and an internist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, discusses hospital readmissions and pay-for-performance measures.
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Emerging Solutions for Administrative Burden and Provider Burnout
David Y. Ting, chief medical information officer of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization in Boston and co-director of the MGH Center for Innovation in Digital HealthCare, discusses technologies aimed at easing administrative burden and provider burnout.
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Advancing Genomic Editing and Organoids
Genomic scientist George Church, PhD, professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, discusses approaches to genome editing and applications for organoids in drug discovery and development.
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Tracing the Arc of Precision Therapies for Kidney Disease
Physician-scientist Anna Greka, MD, PhD, associate professor at Harvard Medical School, founding director of Kidney NExT at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and director of the Broad Institute Kidney Disease Initiative, discusses groundbreaking work on a rare kidney disease, prospects for new therapeutics and collaborating on drug development.
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Better Health Care Through AI? Ambitious but Achievable
Isaac S. Kohane, MD, PhD, chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School, discusses promising uses and the path forward for artificial intelligence (AI) in health care.
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Taking Aim at Provider Consolidation
Leemore S. Dafny, PhD, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, discusses provider consolidation, the CVS-Aetna merger, and the potential impact of Big Tech on health care consolidation.
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Polygenic Scores: Impacts on Health and Biopharma
Amit V. Khera, MD, MSc, associate director of the Precision Medicine Unit at the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Genomics Medicine and the Cardiovascular Disease Initiative at the Broad Institute, discusses the potential impact of polygenic scores.
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Uncertainty in Decision-Making: Critical Care, Imperfect Data
Margaret “Molly” Hayes, MD, associate director of the Internal Medicine Residency Training Program and assistant director of the medical intensive care unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), discusses handling uncertainty in critical care decision-making.
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Workplace Wellness: Managing Expectations
Zirui Song, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of health care policy and medicine at Harvard Medical School and an internal medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses workplace wellness programs.
