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Health care news you might have missed from around the Web this week.

Direct contracting with large employers is 'clearly the future' for some hospitals. But is it right for you?

Telemedicine’s rebirth can be attributed to its usefulness as both a potential cost lever and an avenue to deliver expanded routine and specialty care. 

By reducing the utilization of nonbeneficial care — care that increases costs without a concomitant increase in value — health care can move closer toward achieving the Triple Aim.

A handful of health care systems are partnering with large corporations to better tailor care for their employees. Swedish-Providence Health Alliance's Craig Enge offers hospital leaders a few things he learned during the first year of working directly with aerospace giant Boeing to provide better care to its employees in Seattle.

November has become the hairiest month thanks to the Movember Foundation and the No-Shave November movements, and as we requested, Mercy Health Youngstown in Mahoning Valley, Ohio, has supplied evidence of its fundraising in that arena.

Leaders need a better understanding of cognitive computing to take advantage of the next evolution of big data-driven health care innovation.