Are Inexpensive Solutions Affordable?

Enhanced Affordable Computed Tomography Solutions

High cost and complexity of commercial X-ray computed tomography systems act as a barrier to the adoption of such technology by small and medium sized companies. The work presented here attempts to address these issues through the development of affordable solutions for both CT reconstruction and X-ray projection data set acquisition. Introduction The Precision Measurements Group at SIMTech has...

Affordable Supercomputing Solutions: Cluster Computers: In Business Applications

Businesses need fast computing environments to quickly process the voluminous transactions and to respond to market requirements. Most companies cannot afford the cost of a supercomputer. As an experimental design, the authors have developed a cluster-computing project at their institution, to expose business students to the process of building and operating a cluster computer for use in superc...

The Affordable Care Act: where are we now?

Profits Are Likely To Continue As The Affordable Care Act

To better understand the financial viability of hospital emergency departments (EDs), we created national estimates of the cost to hospitals of providing ED care and the associated hospital revenue using hospital financial reports and patient claims data from 2009. We then estimated the effect the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will have on the future profitability of providing ED care. We estimated...

Are Marketplace Plans Affordable? Consumer Perspectives from the Commonwealth Fund Affordable Care Act Tracking Survey, March-May 2015.

Most employers who provide health insurance to employees subsidize their premiums and provide a comprehensive benefit package. Before the Affordable Care Act, people who lacked health insurance through a job and purchased it on their own paid the full cost of their plans, which often came with skimpy benefit packages and high deductibles. Findings from the Commonwealth Fund Affordable Care Act ...