The Internet of Things provides manufacturing with rich data for increased automation. Beyond company-internal exploitation, the sharing product and process along across supply chains enables more efficient production flows lifecycle management. Even more, data-based automation facilitates short-lived ad hoc collaborations, realizing highly dynamic business relationships sustainable exploitatio...

Software engineering, as a central practice of digitalization, needs to become accountable for sustainability. In light the ecological crises and tremendous impact digital systems on reshaping economic social arrangements - often with negative side-effects we need sustainability transformation transformation. However, this is complex long-term task. article combine an analysis accountability in...

In 2012, 27 organizations will initiate participation in the Medicare Shared Savings Program as Accountable Care Organizations. This level of participation reflects the response of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to criticism that the program as outlined in the proposed rule was overly burdensome, prescriptive, and too risky. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service made significant...

If the United States is to address its overall economic challenges, the rate of growth of health care costs must be restrained. For the next decade, physicians should expect that the principal focus of health policy will be on cost reduction, with a particular emphasis on shifting the business model from one in which physicians and hospitals are rewarded for volume to a model in which they are ...

Lessons from community-oriented primary care in the United States can offer insights into how we could improve population health by integrating the public health, social service, and health care sectors to form accountable communities for health (ACHs). Unlike traditional accountable care organizations (ACOs) that address population health from a health care perspective, ACHs address health fro...