Establishing Federal Laws

Health assessments urged for federal laws and regulations.

Establishing Global Properties of Multi-Agent Systems Via Local Laws

This paper is part of a long term research program on multiagent systems (MASs), based on the proposition that the interactions among the members of a large and heterogeneous system of autonomous agents need to be governed by a global and strictly enforced law ; and that such laws need to be local, so that they can be complied with at the locus of each agent—without having any direct informatio...

Establishing a minimum standard for collaborative research in federal environmental agencies.

There is a general consensus that-given the magnitude of the challenges facing our nation's natural resource managers-the rate, efficiency, and effectiveness of linking research to decision making must be enhanced. Many reports have touched on this issue, most of them culminating with the exhortation to "foster more interactions between scientists and users," but very few documents provide deta...

Establishing a Federal and State Data Exchange Pilot for Public Health Situational Awareness

Objective U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) partnered with the Florida Department of Health (FDOH), Bureau of Epidemiology, to implement a new process for the unidirectional exchange of electronic medical record (EMR) data when ASPR clinical assets are operational in the state following a disaster or other r...

Integrated delivery systems: reforming the conflicts among federal referral, tax exemption, and antitrust laws.