Only pay for what you need: Detecting and removing unnecessary TEE-based code

The ACID-Fission Pay Only for What You Need

What you need to know about pay for performance.

*Tremendous variation exists today among commercial plans' P4P programs, but that will not prevent many of these programs from expanding, as this payment approach almost certainly will gain traction in coming years. *Hospitals that choose not to participate or that perform poorly in P4P programs risk losing market share as well as potential financial benefits. *Involving the medical staff in de...

You get what you pay for.

As Nursing Standard went to press, chancellor Alistair Darling was putting the finishing touches to his pre-budget report. Speculation was rife that he would announce efficiency savings - or cuts to use more direct language - across the public sector, including the NHS.

What you see is what you need.

We studied the role of attention and task demands for implicit change detection. Subjects engaged in an object sorting task performed in a virtual reality environment, where we changed the properties of an object while the subject was manipulating it. The task assures that subjects are looking at the changed object immediately before and after the change. Our results demonstrate that in this si...

Can you get what you pay for? Pay-for-performance and the quality of healthcare providers.

Despite the popularity of pay-for-performance (P4P) among health policymakers and private insurers as a tool for improving quality of care, there is little empirical basis for its effectiveness. We use data from published performance reports of physician medical groups contracting with a large network HMO to compare clinical quality before and after the implementation of P4P, relative to a cont...