Joint Commission's Blue Ribbon Panel to Evaluate Performance Measurement Systems

Bioethics commissions: town meetings with a "blue, blue ribbon"

Blue ribbon panel hears how to respond to biological and chemical threats.

This article reports on the final session o f a Panel offor­ mer officials and Congressmen o f the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations formed to recommend changes to U.S. policy and law to strengthen national biodefense while optimizing resource in­ vestments. I f America were to be beset by a biological or chemical weapons attack, who would be in charge of responding? According to the con...

The Governor's Blue-Ribbon Panel on living and dying with dignity.

Fusion Oncoproteins in Childhood Cancers Recommendation of the Blue Ribbon Panel Pediatric Working Group

Recurrent translocations are a hallmark of childhood cancer and are often pathognomonic of specific cancer types (e.g., EWS-FLI1 in Ewing Sarcoma or PAX-FOXO in alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma). These translocations generate fusion oncoproteins that target developmental programs critical for transformation of the unique cell of origin for each cancer. Fusion oncoproteins are well-defined cancer drive...

How to Evaluate Health Information Systems: Evaluation stages

The most important goal of health systems is improvement of quality, effectiveness and efficiency of health services. To achieve this goal, health care organizations should establish a proper structure for evaluating health information systems. Health information system evaluation is expected to identify the existing problems of the system through measuring specific indicators. The main objecti...