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The dean of social sciences at Harvard University and health care specialist will be in Rhode Island Friday to discuss group economics of health care.

David Cutler, author of Your Money or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America’s Health Care System, will be the featured speaker at Mission: Healthy RI, an advisory group of representatives from the health care and business industries, patients and other stakeholders.

Cutler plans to discuss ways to increase quality and efficiency in health care as well as improving patients’ access to treatment choices and health care cost information as well as to health insurance choices and costs.

The work group is the creation of Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts, who has said she will use information from the sessions to form a health care package to be introduced next year.

The group will meet from 7:30 to 9:00 a.m. at the Business Innovation Factory, which is located at the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation's headquarters on Valley Street, Providence.

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