Practices continue to struggle with patient scheduling and assuring access to care for their patients. Consequently, practices are seeking new, innovative ways to redesign practice operations to improve patient, physician, and staff satisfaction. One of the foundations of this redesign is Advanced Access. Advanced Access is a system that gives patients the ability to schedule an appointment wit...

Health care quality, costs, and methods to control them are debated. Medicare (CMS) measures quality. We studied New York City hospitals, divided into three groups by funding source. PROC GLIMIX enabled us to study proportions of compliance of hospitals nested within funding type, with repeated measures over time. Public hospitals performed better on the CMS measures than the other safety net h...

ABSTRACT In recent years, RTB(Real Time Bidding) becomes a popular online advertisement trading method. During the auction, each DSP(Demand Side Platform) is supposed to evaluate current opportunity and respond with an ad and corresponding bid price. It’s essential for DSP to find an optimal ad selection and bid price determination strategy which maximizes revenue or performance under budget an...

D uring the past two decades, performancebased accountability systems (PBASs), which link financial or other incentives to measured performance as a means of improving services, have gained popularity among policymakers. For example, the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 (Pub. L. 107110) combined explicit expectations for student performance with well-aligned tests to measure achievement,...

A pay for performance (P4P) scheme termed Quality Based Financing (QBF) was introduced in Norway in January 2014. QBF was designed as a pilot project for three years and covers all the public hospitals and public funded private hospitals. The main objective is to test the use of financial incentives to motivate the hospitals to increase overall quality and patient safety. QBF is based on how we...

We are now living in the seventh annual cycle of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF). So ingrained has QOF become for everyone working in UK primary care, that it is hard to imagine life before QOF. It is hard too, to recall the revolutionary changes that accompanied its arrival. Prior to QOF, there were just two targets for general practice in the UK: childhood immunisations and cervical ...

In Thailand, police officers at Metropolitan Police Bureau worked under pressure, stress, exhaustion, and discouragement. This situation leads to inefficient or diminishes performance, creating more resignations annually. However, there has been little discussion about this situation. The purpose of study is explore the Burnout syndrome officers, test relationship influences affecting officers....