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Bundled vs Capitated and What They Mean for Radiology (1 of 2)

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Did you have a chance to read the July 2016 issue of Harvard Business Review (HBR)?

Why would anyone care to subscribe to HBR, you ask?  Well, fine, you can read these for free on their website.

July’s HBR has a healthcare focus.  First is Michael Porter and Robert Kaplan’s How to Pay for Health Care, followed by Brent James and Greg Poulson’s The Case for Capitation.

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Robots and Radiologists

In an article titled “The Robot as Radiologist,” Dr. Douglas Green from Univ. of Washington acknowledges the rapid advances in computational image recognition and advent of IBM’s Watson.  He concludes the commentary by taking solace in the fact that, at least for the time being, artificial intelligence is complementary rather than substitutional to human radiologists.  I wholeheartedly agree.  However, Harvard Business Schools gurus do not.

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