Eliminating Invisible Barriers

Eliminating barriers to the disabled.

Project Open House provides for the removal of architectural barriers in the homes of disabled low and moderate income New York City dwellers. This program was developed as a cooperative effort between United Cerebral Palsy of New York City, Inc., the New York City Mayor's Office for the Handicapped, and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development. Project Open House operates as foll...

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Eliminating Barriers to Enrollment in the Children’s Health Insurance Program

In 1997, Congress authorized the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP or CHIP) to decrease the number of uninsured children in the United States. By September 1999 all states had submitted their CHIP plans to and received approval from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Yet, in spite of ambitious efforts on the part of many states to assemble their CHIP programs quick...

Telemedicine: the invisible legal barriers to the health care of the future.

Telemedicine has the potential to transform the world of health care just as the Internet transformed the world of commerce. Ms. Daly examines two legal obstacles to expanding the use of telemedicine: licensure and liability. She defines telemedicine and discusses its common applications and significant benefits. Licensure laws and liability rules result in formidable barriers to the expanded u...

From the traditional bureaucratic paradigm to E-government: visible and invisible Barriers

E-Government initiatives are currently popular in many countries, both developed and developing countries. Iran is an Islamic country and one of the most ancient and richest bureaucratic systems in the world. Thus, the nature of the traditional model of government bureaucracy and other distinctive characteristics such as the large size of government and the nature of government monopoly highlig...