Using Incentives to Improve Resource Utilization

Quality-Assuring Scheduling-Using Stochastic Behavior to Improve Resource Utilization

We present a unified model for admission and scheduling, applicable for various active resources such as CPU or disk to assure a requested quality in situations of temporary overload. The model allows us to predict and control the behavior of applications based on given quality requirements. It uses the variations in the execution time, i.e., the time any active resource is needed. We split res...

Satellite Beam Handover Strategy to Improve Return Link Resource Utilization

Mobile communication on the multi-beam satellite communication has attracted attention, since Digital Video Broadcasting – Return Channel Satellite (DVB-RCS) has been successively implemented. In general, multi beam satellite employs uniform allocation of RF power and bandwidth to multi beams, since it is hard to predict the distribution of traffic requests and the arrival rate of new connectio...

Using incentives to improve the quality of care in Medicare

Rewarding results: using financial incentives to improve quality.

P olicy makers like to experiment with different ways of improving quality. Educational approaches have been dominant in the past. These are usually professionally led and developmental in nature. While they will always play an important role, the evidence that traditional educational methods do not seemtodeliveranacceptablelevelorpaceof change has come as a surprise to many people. Market base...

Can respiratory therapist-driven protocols improve resource utilization?

A high variability in the practice of medicine has contributed, in part, to higher healthcare costs and poor adherence to evidence-based interventions. For this reason, protocol-based strategies have been developed to reduce the lack of concordance in an attempt to improve clinical outcomes. In the respiratory care setting, non-physiciandriven protocols have been compared with physician-directe...