Health information technology (HIT) adoption has been recommended as a method to improve care coordination and promote patient safety. Home health agencies can use HIT to improve coordination of care provided in multiple locations. The purposes of this study are: 1) to determine the EMR adoption rate and use of point of care technology among a US sample of 1,036 home health/hospice facilities, ...

We demonstrate a negative relationship between pro-market reforms and the sustainability of superior profits in an emerging economy. The decline in sustainability of superior profits shows that pro-market reforms bring significant threats in addition to the various opportunities such as greater availability of production factors and greater freedom to enter and operate businesses highlighted in...

This paper investigates the effect of capacity constraints on the sustainability of collusion in markets subject to cyclical demand fluctuations. In the absence of capacity constraints (i.e. a limiting case of our model), Haltiwanger and Harrington (1991) show that firms find it more difficult to collude during periods of decreasing demand. We find that this prediction can be overturned if firm...

severity, HDM-specific IgE, and CD30 are significantly decreased with occlusive bed covers, however, there was not a statistically significant difference between the study populations. Additionally, HDM allergen in this study was not common and may not be an important factor in the disease process of this population. Future studies should include participants with both sensitization and signifi...

In connection with the imposition of martial law, a number laws were passed that increased criminal liability for crimes, one them in misuse humanitarian aid allocated to needs citizens who are combat zones or forced leave their homes. permanent residence. The subject this offense is aid, charitable donations and gratuitous definition which given Laws Ukraine "On Humanitarian Aid" Charitable Ac...

Abstract The goal of this paper is to be an incipient case study interdisciplinarity between AGILE SCRUM Methodology and food processing industry. purposes are profit maximization, productivity increasing customer satisfaction. This starts with a short introduction in theoretical aspects about Agile, including framework, emphasizing the applicability many fields, biotechnologies

to measure an unbiased farm-specific efficiency of individual dairy farmers, a shadow-price profit frontier adjusted for market distortion was applied to a sample of 860 iranian small intensive dairy farms surveyed in 2005-2006. this measure was then compared with that of unadjusted measure that assumes undistorted market. a multiple general linear model (glm) technique was applied to the data ...

During the operation, a tremendous amount of heat is generated in the coal based sponge iron plant and a significant part of this heat associated with the waste gas, remains unutilized. While utilizing this heat in the process the energy demand of the process may be reduced, which decreases the coal consumption, which is the only source of energy for this plant. To utilize the heat associated w...

This paper analyzes the effects of mergers around the world over the past 15 years. We utilize a large panel of data on mergers to test several hypotheses about mergers. The effects of the mergers are examined by comparing the performance of the merging firms with control groups of nonmerging firms. The comparisons are made on profitability and sales. The results show that mergers on average do...