967 — and it is particularly irresponsible when the interventions are provided at public expense. On the other hand, we must avoid an innovation policy that cuts off new interventions prematurely. Some interventions that are not cost-effective at first may prove to be so over time and with greater experience in implementing them. It is in gathering this experience that the private part of the “...

We study the role of health benefits in an employer's compensation strategy, given the overall goal of minimizing total compensation cost (wages plus health-insurance cost). When employees' health status is private information, the employer's basic benefit package consists of a base wage and a moderate health plan, with a generous plan available for an additional charge. We show that in setting...

Intel Corporation developed a next-generation healthcare model aligned with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Triple Aim Initiative1. The company engaged with Presbyterian Healthcare Services (PHS) to implement the program, branded as Connected Care, for employees and dependents of Intel’s Rio Rancho, New Mexico, facility2. The two organizations established a custom integrated deli...

A CAD (computer aided design) analysis software package (CADVIEW) was designed for use with prosthetic and orthotic CAD CAM (computer aided design/computer aided manufacture) systems. Using the Microsoft Windows 3.1 environment, CADVIEW provides a series of anatomical shape viewing and analysis tools. These tools include simultaneous display of multiple sockets and multiple views, two dimension...

duration of enrollment and utilization under children's health insurance programs for States planning to expand such programs in response to the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. Using data from children's health insurance programs in Pennsylvania, we find that there is a significant turnover among enrollees and the pattern of use following enrollment suggests considerable pent-up demand for medical...

Theoretically, Medicare provides one standard benefit package to all enrollees. But because of State-level variations in populations, service supply, and local practice patterns, national policy changes may have unequal impacts on access and service utilization. Across-the-board policy changes may create hardships in one area while appropriately discouraging use in another area. In this article...

The Rodin platform for Event-B formal modelling is based on a bespoke model repository. While this approach has some advantages it also means that the platform does not benefit from the host of emerging technologies and supporting packages that are freely available for open source modelling frameworks. The Eclipse Modelling Framework (EMF) has emerged as the de-facto standard package upon which...

We present a solution to bind a highly specialized, fine tuned software tool for performance evaluation of complex systems (GreatSPN) with a general purpose interactive numerical environment (Scilab). We show how users can benefit from the respective powers of these tools. Our package allows computation of various performance indices not directly available in GreatSPN. RÉSUMÉ. Nous présentons u...

The Summer/Fall 1993 issue of The Future of Children examined how to make the overall process of reforming the health care system work for the benefit of children. That earlier issue discussed the ways in which a health care benefits package might be tailored for children, the effects of managed care on children and pregnant women, ways to reform the private health insurance market, how to pay ...

This article examines the acceptance of renewable energy in adoption climate package, taking into account GREEN consumer values among consumers Poland. The research problem addressed this paper relates to measurement terms concept; specifically, available offerings provided by real businesses. In addition, needs are important ensuring energy, which will create opportunities for its production c...