Provider sponsored organizations: emerging opportunities for growth.

Assuring the solvency of provider-sponsored organizations.

2010 Conference on Infectious Disease Modeling sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense.

Advances in infectious disease modeling may offer opportunities to mitigate the effect of emerging infectious diseases upon military readiness.'"' Concemed that opportunities for collaboration might be missed and unintended redundancy might be occurring, the U.S. Defense Department (DoD) Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (GEIS) sponsored conferences in August 2005 and ...

A New Model Representation for Road Mapping in Emerging Sciences: A Case Study on Roadmap of Quantum Computing

One of the solutions for organizations to succeed in highly competitive markets is to move toward emerging sciences. These areas provide many opportunities, but, if organizations do not meet requirements of emerging sciences, they may fail and eventually, may enter a crisis. In this matter, one of the important requirements is to develop suitable roadmaps in variety fields such as strategic, ca...

Accountable care organizations--an employer POV primer.

The accountable care organization (ACO) has emerged as the centerpiece of postreform initiatives to improve the delivery of quality, cost-efficient care. As the primary partners in delivering ACOs, payers and providers have begun to collaborate on the opportunities presented by the legislation. For employers, however, this new approach to managed health care delivery models will present challen...

Addressing obesity in the workplace: the role of employers.

CONTEXT Employers have pursued many strategies over the years to control health care costs and improve care. Disappointed by efforts to manage costs through the use of insurance-related techniques (e.g., prior authorization, restricted provider networks), employers have also begun to try to manage health by addressing their employees' key lifestyle risks. Reducing obesity (along with tobacco us...