Supervisory Training to Enhance Permanency SolutionsThe Massachusetts Experience

Using Medicaid/SCHIP to Insure Working Families: The Massachusetts Experience

Massachusetts was the first State to implement a premium subsidy program for employer-sponsored health insurance, using both Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) funding. The Insurance Partnership (IP) provides subsidies directly to small employers, and the Premium Assistance Program provides subsidies to their low-income employees. Approximately 3,500 small firms curr...

Simulation training to EnhancE nurSE-PhySician collaboration

© 2011 Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research Nearly a decade has passed since the Institute of Medicine released its seminal report To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. The report described the US health care system as a decade or more behind other high-risk industries in its attention to ensuring basic safety. One recommendation was that Congress should create a center...

Using Semantics to Enhance the Blogging Experience

Blogging, as a subset of the web as a whole, can benefit greatly from the addition of semantic metadata. The result — which we will call Semantic Blogging — provides improved capabilities with respect to search, connectivity and browsing compared to current blogging technology. Moreover, Semantic Blogging will allow new ways of convenient data exchange between the actors within the blogosphere ...

Technology to Enhance Learning: The Jordanian Experience

The rapidly growth of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has changed the routine life in the world. Developing nations see the economic prosperity in developed nations by development of associated information technology and development of a knowledge society.Jordan, as one of the developing countries, highly values the importance of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and their ...

Optimizing Business Processes to Enhance Customer Experience