OBJECTIVES The goal of this pilot study is to demonstrate whether revisiting and focusing on simple and generally known primary care office management practices has a meaningful impact on emergency department (ED) utilization for conditions that likely could have been treated in the primary care office setting (primary care physician [PCP] treatable). STUDY DESIGN Cohort study using health pl...

The growth of accountable care organizations (ACOs), bundled payment initiatives, and other performance-based payment arrangements signals a shift in the health care landscape toward rewarding value, rather than the volume of services provided. Although this shift is still unfolding, many health care organizations are adopting population health approaches that expand their focus beyond acute, e...

PURPOSE We sought to assess the quality of care provided by an innovative Medicare+Choice HMO targeted specifically at nursing home residents and employing nurse practitioners to provide additional primary care over and above that provided by physicians. The underlying premise of the Evercare approach is that the additional primary care will reduce the rate of untoward events and reduce the use...

Abstract—End user privacy is a critical concern for all organizations that collect, process and store user data as a part of their business. Privacy concerned users, regulatory bodies and privacy experts continuously demand organizations provide users with privacy protection. Current research lacks an understanding of organizational characteristics that affect an organization’s motivation towar...

Lessons learned and practiced in agriculture for 100 years are now informing the development of a primary care extension program that has the potential to provide substantial support for primary care practices throughout Oklahoma and to make it easier for all agencies and organizations working to improve our state's health to do so more effectively.

In this paper, we studied the postsynaptic organizations of directional selective visual neurons for collision detection. Directional selective neurons can extract different directional visual motion cues fast and reliably by allowing inhibition spreads to further layers in specific directions with one or several time steps delay. Whether these directional selective neurons can be easily organi...

dvanced Access, sometimes referred to as Open Access (see page 199), is a set of principles designed to help practices reduce waiting times for appointments and reduce office-waiting times, two common access barriers in healthcare today. The Advanced Access approach to practice management and scheduling was originally developed by Mark Murray, MD, MPA, and Catherine Tantau, RN, at Kaiser Perman...