Hospitalist Value in an ACO World

The hospitalist: better value in inpatient care?

From perhaps a few hundred practitioners in 1996 to an estimated 30,000 today, the discipline called hospital medicine has shown remarkably rapid growth. It represents a fundamental separation of the inpatient and outpatient components of internal and family medicine. The split has implications for the quality and efficiency of care delivery, the outlook for the physician workforce, and the dev...

An ACO algorithm for one-dimensional cutting stock problem

The one-dimensional cutting stock problem, has so many applications in lots of industrial processes and during the past few years has attracted so many researchers’ attention all over the world. In this paper a meta-heuristic method based on ACO is presented to solve this problem. In this algorithm, based on designed probabilistic laws, artificial ants do select various cuts and then select the...

PCMH, ACO measures help prepare groups for value-based care.

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

An Initialized ACO for the VRPTW

The Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows is an important task in logistic planning. The expenditure on employing labor force, i.e., drivers for vehicles, accounts for most of the costs in this domain. We propose an initialized Ant Colony approach, IACO-VRPTW, with the primary goal (f1) to reduce the number of vehicle needed to serve the customers and the second-priority goal (f2) of decrea...