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The previous decade has seen a variety of trends and developments in the area of communications and thus multimedia access. While individual, isolated developments produced small advances on the status quo, their combination and cross-fertil ization resulted in today’s complex but exciting landscape. In particular, we are beginning to see delivery of all types of data for all types of users in ...

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Since the 1920s health insurance has been based on the principle of controlling the risk pool with specific benefit limitations used to manage costs. Due to changes in the risk pool demographics, the increase in volume and intensity of services and the array of new technologies to subscribers, additional measures are needed. This trend, called "managed care," places an emphasis on clinical crit...

Illinois at Chicago, Illinois, USA; Michael C. Fiore, MD, MPH, and Paula Keller, MPH, ATMC National Program Office, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; and C. Tracy Orleans, PhD, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. Correspondence: Paula Keller, Center for Tobacco Research & Intervention, University of Wisconsin Medical School, 1930 Monroe Street, Suite 200,...

As oil and gas production moves to ever more challenging areas, increased use of technology becomes increasingly important. One technology that can contribute towards achieving safe and economic production from such areas is computer-aided process engineering. We outline the use of such technology in two (of many) instances: Managed pressure drilling (MPD) for deep-offshore applications and nat...

Despite its many advantages, managed care creates new problems for consumers. Activists have proposed four types of remedies: (1) increased information and choice; (2) standards for services and marketing; (3) administrative oversight; and (4) procedural due process for complaints. Each approach offers some benefits, but they are insufficient to cope with consumer problems. What is lacking is e...