Going Beyond Cost-Sharing Parity to Improve Behavioral Health Access

Going Beyond Simple Information Maps to Improve Access to Data Sources

SAS Information Maps provide users with easy access to rather simply-defined data sources. Although they can be directed to external relational databases, performance can be an issue due to the way in which queries are built and passed via the LIBNAME engine within the SAS/Access products. In addition, sometimes it is necessary to perform nested queries to databases in order to provide more mea...

Insurance Parity for Mental Health: Cost, Access, and Quality

Virtual WLAN: Going beyond Virtual Access Points

Wireless nodes equipped with multiple radio interfaces open up new fields of application. Ranging from multi-channel usage in a cell in order to increase the bandwidth to the creation of meshed multi-hop topologies. Using multiple wireless cards demands a large physical space, more energy consumption and as a consequence decreasing in the battery lifetime. Virtualization of the wireless network...

Going Beyond All-Or-Nothing Access to a Device’s Applications

Most mobile phones and tablets support only two access control device states: locked and unlocked. We investigated how well allor-nothing device access control meets the need of users by interviewing 20 participants who had both a smartphone and tablet. We find all-or-nothing device access control to be a remarkably poor fit with users’ preferences. On both phones and tablets, participants want...

Initiatives to improve access to behavioral health services in the Veterans Affairs Health System.

In response to veterans' needs in the context of recent deployments, the Veterans Affairs (VA) health system has increased the number of its facilities and caregivers and has pioneered changes in policy and programs. We review significant recent initiatives to improve access to behavioral health services in the VA health system.