Reminding patients by text message: Try reverse billing

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again. A message for Public Health Research in Belgium

The topic of the papers covered a variety of public health issues. There were papers on public health nutrition (1, 2), on mental health (3, 4), on tobacco smoking (5, 6), on occupational health (7), patient rights (8), divorce and health (9), primary care (10), health services research (11) and cancer screening (12). The editor’s favourite was the latter. Within this paper the results of four ...

Balance billing: the patients' perspective

We study the effects of 'balance billing', i.e., allowing physicians to charge a fee from patients in addition to the fee paid by Medicare. First, we show that on pure efficiency grounds the optimal Medicare fee under balance billing is zero. An active Medicare policy thus can only be justified when distributional concerns are accounted for. Extending the analysis by Glazer and McGuire, we ther...

Content Based Message Filtering System by Using Text Categorization

OSN plays a vital role in day to day life. User can communicate with other user by sharing several types of contents like image, audio and video contents. Major issue in OSN(Online Social Network) is to preventing security in posting unwanted messages. Ability to have a direct control over the messages posted on user wall is not provided. Unwanted post will be directly posted on the public wall...

Remote analogical reminding.

Remote analogical reminding is hypothesized to occur when one episode is cued by another sharing similar themes but not similar object, character, or event descriptions. We report three experiments exploring this view. Subjects' remindings in Experiment 1 showed sensitivity to remote analogical similarity even though targets were encoded only briefly in an incidental learning paradigm. Experime...

“Finding and Reminding” Reconsidered