OBJECTIVE Scribes are increasingly being used in clinics to assist physicians with documentation during patient care. The annual effect of scribes in a real-world clinic on physician productivity and revenue has not been evaluated. METHODS We performed a retrospective study comparing the productivity during routine clinic visits of ten cardiologists using scribes vs 15 cardiologists without s...

Successful Internet service offerings can only thrive if customers are satisfied with service performance. While large service providers can usually cope with fluctuations of customer visits retaining acceptable Quality of Service, small and medium-sizes enterprises face a big challenge due to limited resources in the IT infrastructure. Popular services, such as justin.tv and SmugMug, rely on e...

Contract (custom) manufacturers of components and manufactured materials such as steel sell capacity under different contract terms to different buyers. In a common practice, the supplier offers a market standard price and lead time combination for products listed in its catalog. At the same time, it strikes annual contracts with some high-volume customers who require recurring delivery of a cu...

Billings Clinic learned the following important lessons in implementing a pharmacy revenue integrity initiative: Integrate pharmacy data as fully as possible. Audit and review pharmacy data regularly to validate the data and identify key areas where education can be provided to support accuracy and compliance. Use technology to bridge gaps between pharmacy data, such as gaps in billable units a...

• Community Revenue Collection Systems • Why Computerize? • Potential Market • Problems of Manual or Centralized Systems • Fault Tolerant Technology • Cost-Effective Mobile Technology • Scalability • Benefits for Government • Increased Collection Efficiency • Control of the Collection Process • Efficient Time Utilization • Minimal Training Required • Future Revenue Streams? • The P...

The techniques of revenue management have potential application in many industries – as long as customers view the resulting policies as being fair.

This paper applies the technique of Granger Causality to determine the relationship between total government expenditures and total tax revenue using annual revised estimates. The analysis discovers a firm unidirectional effect from expenditure to revenue suggesting the preference of controlling the spending decisions to reduce the tax revenue-expenditure deficit.

in this paper, a new revenue efficiency data envelopment analysis (re-dea) approach is considered for finding the most revenue efficient unit with price uncertainty in both optimistic and pessimistic perspectives. the optimistic and pessimistic perspectives use efficient frontier and inefficient frontier, respectively. an integrated model is introduced to find decision making units (dmus) that ...

after its conquest, khorasan came under the administration of the islamic caliphate and found particular importance due to its possession of natural resources and its location on the international trade route. the region excelled in local industries, agricultural products and the transition of eastern goods, and used to provide the required resources of islamic states. some of the policies of t...