In this case study, the authors discuss the implementation of online career advising and planning services at a major university. Using externally hosted chat software, the office of career services designed an interactive, student focused, online resource for students and alumni. Implementation required researching best practices, establishing a reasonable budget, training staff, and marketing...

BACKGROUND Many physicians believe that advanced practice clinicians (APCs [nurse practitioners and physician assistants]) provide care of relatively lower value. OBJECTIVE To compare use of low-value services among U.S. APCs and physicians. DESIGN Service use after primary care visits was evaluated for 3 conditions after adjustment for patient and provider characteristics and year. Patient...

The California Department of Industrial Relations/Division of Worker's Compensation asked RAND to provide technical assistance in developing a fee schedule for home health services provided to injured workers. The fee schedule needs to address the full spectrum of home health services ranging from skilled nursing and therapy services to unskilled personal care or chore services that may be prov...

Sustainable product development is currently of concern by scientists within both academia and engineering. Despite existing literature proposed related to detailed aspects for design for sustainability (D4S), the modeling of life cycle driving forces for D4S in different levels remains insufficient. A morphological analysis (MA) approach was applied to explore the strategies in sustainable pro...

Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This document analyzes issues involved in the transition of "unmanaged networks" from IPv4 to IPv6. Unmanaged networks typically correspond to home networks or small office networks. A companion paper analyzes out t...

It has been gathering great deal of attention to provide personalized services in the home or in the small office. As a necessary technology for it, person recognition by pressure sensors on a chair is described. It exploits the hipprints of users. Such a method makes it possible to automatically login to a computer when the user sits. The recognition rate reached to 99.6% for 5 people and 98.4...

Purpose – Proposes providing an insight about factors affecting business-to-business ecommerce adoption and implementation in small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), highlighting similarities and differences between Danish and Australian SMEs. Design/methodology/approach – The research is based on a wide literature review, focused on proposing a theoretical model of technological, environment...

cialized Information Services, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. Correspondence: Dr Hakkinen, Office of Clinical Toxicology, Specialized Information Services, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 6707 Democracy Blvd, Ste 510, Bethesda, MD 20892 (pertti [email protected]). Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported. Disc...

Keeping up with the rapidly changing healthcare environment can be a daunting task for medical practice professionals. From Medicare rule changes to HIPAA — and beyond — the volume of information needed to stay informed and in compliance can be overwhelming. For this reason, consider using the free tools provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Office of Civil Rights (OCR...