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What do we gain from Big Data? What do we lose? Al Jazeera America examines the role of technology and the implications of sharing personal information in the network’s first graphic novella, Terms of Service: Understanding Our Role in the World of Big Data. The new comic novella, available on Al Jazeera America’s website at is a thought provoking, entertaining field guide to help smart people understand how their personal, and often very private, data is collected and used. Strategy+business: international business strategy news articles and award-winning analysis. Humana Inc. : First-of-its-Kind Solution Rewards Parents and Kids for Making Healthy Choices. A new survey by HumanaVitality LLC, a comprehensive wellness solution that incentivizes people to make healthier choices, revealed that while 84 percent of U.S. parents say their families motivate them to work out or make smart eating choices1, their behaviors may be undercutting their desire to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
In fact, 64 percent acknowledge serving their family unhealthy foods because it's more convenient.1 In response, HumanaVitality and The Vitality Group have introduced Vitality Kids™, the first wellness solution that enables kids (aged 17 and under), in addition to parents, to earn points for participating in healthy activities. Here's how it works: Parents complete the age adjusted child health assessment to gain insight into their child's well-being. Kids start earning Vitality Points for eligible activities such as receiving immunizations and flu shots, participating in team sports, and attending health education classes with parents. How an Olympic flop can inspire innovation - Ask the Fedcoach. Posted at 11:32 AM ET, 07/26/2012 Jul 26, 2012 03:32 PM EDT TheWashingtonPost (Andy Lyons - GETTY IMAGES) Are you familiar with the Fosbury Flop?
In the 1960s, a track and field athlete named Dick Fosbury developed a new high jump technique because he consistently failed to clear the bar using traditional methods. There are lessons to be learned for federal leaders from Fosbury’s experience. I share this example because my organization, the Partnership for Public Service, and Deloitte derived some similar lessons from our latest Best Places to Work in the Federal Government analysis of innovation in government. Based on our review of the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, we found that 92 percent of the respondents were looking for ways to perform their jobs better, but only 59 percent said they were encouraged to come up with new and better ways of doing business.
Of course, there are notable exceptions. . · Ask your employees for help. . · Support employees who generate ideas. What Is Design Thinking Anyway? This topic is being heavily debated in the design and innovation circles I’ve been traveling in lately.
Some feel we need to be thinking more before we make anything at all while others say we need to focus on making, and stop spending so much time torturing ourselves over words on a page that say what we plan to do. ‘Design thinking’ is defined as “the ability to combine empathy for the context of a problem, creativity in the generation of insights and solutions, and rationality to analyze and fit solutions to the context.” Design Thinking Foundations. Design Thinking Foundations Design Thinking Foundations is a research-based initiative focused on exploring design thinking, its applications, and its roots.The project seeks to understand the concept of design thinking as understood both by those that practice it and through synthesizing the literature on design thinking, innovation, creative problem solving and design itself.
This project has multiple components: 1. Review and synthesis of the literature. What would be essential to read for people getting started in design thinking research? Inspiration and Chai. For many years I worked in palliative care.
My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives. People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. I learnt never to underestimate someone's capacity for growth. When questioned about any regrets they had or anything they would do differently, common themes surfaced again and again. TeamSTEPPS Home. Waiting is the bane of the medical system. Lisa Gualtieri, PhD | Patient | October 24, 2011 “By the time you see the doctor, you’re either dead or you’re better,” my mother-in-law told me.
She had to have multiple tests, all with long waits to get the appointments and the results, before her health insurer would allow her to make an appointment with a specialist. “Waiting is the bane of the medical system,” a former student, an R.N., concurred. Advances in medicine and technology have improved medical outcomes, but have often resulted in more waiting at a time when every other aspect of life is speeding up. Waiting is a systemic problem exacerbated by advances in medicine and by health care reform.
Some of the ways we wait: Wait to see if the symptoms go away or get worse. Waiting reduction We all have to wait. Schedule tests and doctor’s appointments together. Quality of health care is paramount It is important to maintain perspective: quality of health care is paramount.
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