This article reviews the history of the productivity adjustment in the fee schedule and the literature on measuring productivity in health care. Measuring physician-specific productivity is challenging, a principal reason why the actual update formula uses an economywide measure of productivity change. A number of the challenges, including adjusting for quality, the use of administered prices, ...

Purpose: This paper seeks to consider the influence of organisational culture and its relationship employees’ perception brand organisation they work for. It also aims clarify where responsibility lies for setting whether that role is a board-driven function, falls within CEO, or both. Design/methodology/approach: The research approach uses phenomenology, which focuses on participants’ lived ex...

The progress in context-aware systems is predominantly technology-driven, leading to innovations in technology-savvy industries while having almost no impact on other industries, such as the insurance sector. In this paper we introduce a novel, key player-oriented framework that explicitly takes into account the (business) value for each player being relevant when implementing a particular cont...

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