Capitalizing on existing IT investments, INTEGRIS Health, a 15-hospital system in Oklahoma, is applying business process integration (BPI) methodology and technology to leverage legacy systems and staff resources. The resulting project uses manual (human) and system tasks to compare real-time information across systems to eliminate preventable adverse drug events caused by medication ordering e...

2. Approach We first define a family of very simple basic investment strategies. We wish to guarantee that the performance of our strategy is close to that of any of the the basic strategies that we may consider, which can be achieved by hedging : distributing our starting capital over all basic strategies. Let δ = δ1, δ2, . . . be a sequence of positive reals, then the basic strategy σδ initia...

introduction: global patient safety is the concern of all areas of the health care. in addition to the human suffering in those inflicted unsafe care and services, it has a heavy economic cost. due to the sensitive patient safety in the operation rooms, the present study aimed to assess patient safety in the operating rooms. methods: this was a descriptive cross-sectional study that was conduct...

BACKGROUND In order to maximize the benefits of HIV care and treatment investments in sub-Saharan Africa, programs can broaden to target other diseases amenable to screening and efficient management. We nested cervical cancer screening into family planning clinics at select sites also receiving PEPFAR support for antiretroviral therapy (ART) rollout. This was done using visual inspection with a...

Different reducing agents (B, Al, Si and Ti) were individually added to two gypsum-bonded investments to prepare investments preventing surface blackening of some noble cast alloys. The effect of different additive contents on green-body and burnout compressive strength, setting and thermal expansion of the investments were evaluated. The strength and expansion of the investments were changed b...

This paper examines the experience of corporate venturing activity in the United States. We present a history of corporate venture programs and the motivations for such programs. We then explore a detailed history of corporate venture investments over the past twenty years. We find that the majority of corporate venture investments go to investments in related technologies. These investments ar...

abstract many scholars believe that investment in women’s education not only reduces the gender gap, but also improves and enhances the cultural and educational level of women in the society. furthermore, economists believe that women’s education has a positive effect on their participation in the labor market. education is amongst the most important factors which not only benefits the people ...