Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is increasingly being used to demonstrate the causal links between brain and behavior in humans. Further, extensive clinical trials are being conducted to investigate the therapeutic role of TMS in disorders such as depression. Because TMS causes strong peripheral effects such as auditory clicks and muscle twitches, experimental artifacts such as subject ...

The growing prevalence of electronic commerce and the widespread use of mobile devices has made mobile payments an interesting alternative method of payment for customers and merchants. One major issue to be resolved is the integration of a real-time wireless means of payment within their current payment system. In this paper, we propose a new architecture of mobile payment system to improve bu...

More than a century after Twain wrote his comments, what we now label “fee-for-service” has, as Twain lamented, continued as the dominant payment model in health care. However, the march toward value-based payment has started to change the system, and far more dramatic changes are on the horizon. The Affordable Care Act and payment reform are transforming the system back to Twain’s “old time cu...

The development of technology and information in the digital era as it is today a significant change human behavior. requires all elements society institutions to meet needs community related this era. On basis fulfillment, Supreme Court has created an e-court application. This research type empirical legal research. Empirical oriented primary data (research results field). As for study, implem...

Payment systems are one of the key Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs) and have showed remarkable progress over the past two decades. The first half of this chapter focuses on the evolutionary process of payment systems, starting with the Deferred Net Settlement (DNS) system and progressing to the RealTime Gross Settlement (RTGS) system. Subsequently, much more sophisticated payment systems...

The rapid transition to card payments has sparked a search for effective countermeasures to those who exploit card payment security vulnerabilities to commit payment fraud. A review of these vulnerabilities finds that they are tied together by an information-intensive payment approval system. Especially damaging are large data breaches, which are often the result of criminals gathering informat...

This article presents a system under consideration by the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) for incorporating a measure of severity of illness into the Medicare diagnosis-related groups (DRGs). DRG assignment is one of the main factors in determining the payment made for hospital inpatient services furnished to Medicare beneficiaries. Specifically, the formula used to calculate paymen...

The American College of Physicians (ACP) applauds Chairman Baucus and Ranking Member Hatch for holding this roundtable discussion and for the committee’s bipartisan efforts in trying to develop a solution to Medicare’s physician payment system, which has been a burden on physician practices for over a decade. We share your view that “we need physicians to suggest changes to the Medicare physici...

Payment systems are one of the key Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs) and have showed remarkable progress over the past two decades. The first half of this chapter focuses on the evolutionary process of payment systems, starting with the Deferred Net Settlement (DNS) system and progressing to the RealTime Gross Settlement (RTGS) system. Subsequently, much more sophisticated payment systems...