Joseph Antos is the Wilson Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. He is a Commissioner of the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission. Previously, Antos held senior positions at the Congressional Budget Office, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Office of Management and Budget, and the President’s Council of...

In recent years, the term paperless environment has almost become essential to manage various office contents. We have proposed a system aSPOCMS (An Agent-based Semantic Web for Paperless Office Content Management System) to provide paperless environment based on workflow ontology to manage the files and documents of various departments and sections of higher educational institutions. The metad...

BACKGROUND The utilization rate for orthopaedic services (office visits and surgery) is not well known. The purpose of this study was to determine the utilization rates for orthopaedic office visits and surgical procedures in a large population of captured lives. METHODS The study population comprised an average of 134,902 persons per month who were enrolled under a capitated insurance plan b...

This Issue Brief series is supported under contract # HHSP233200500198U to Child Trends from the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, under the direction of project officer Ivelisse Martinez-Beck. Support is also provided by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Depa...

This Research-to-Policy, Research­ to-Practice brief series focuses on issues related to the development and refinement of measures to assess the quality of early childhood and school age care settings. This series is supported under contract # HHSP233200500198U to Child Trends from the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administra­ tion for Children and Families, U.S. Department of H...

background: providing community-based mental health services is crucial and is an agreed plan between the iranian mental health office and the regional committee for the eastern mediterranean (affiliated with who). the aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of home-visit clinical case-management services on the hospitalization rate and other clinical outcomes in patients with seve...

In April 2014, CDC published "Providing Quality Family Planning Services: Recommendations of CDC and the U.S. Office of Population Affairs" (QFP), which describes the scope of services that should be offered in a family planning visit and how to provide those services (e.g., periodicity of screening, which persons are in need of services, etc.) (1). The sections in QFP include the following: De...

This paper presents a look at the concept of Lean Manufacturing as applied to the office environment. Lean Manufacturing, which is often referred to as Lean, is a philosophy of manufacturing process improvement through the elimination of waste. As Lean developed since its origins in the automobile industry, it has been extended to apply to various enterprises and organizations, and has achieved...

Acknowledgments: The work of the National Wraparound Initiative has received support from several sources, including ORC Macro, Inc.; the Child, Adolescent, and Family Branch of the Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; the Center for Medical and Medicaid Services (award no. 11-P-92001/3-01); the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services an...