Hospitals and health systems, whether general acute care hospitals or specialty-driven hospitals, are attempting to prosper in a unique time. This year, hospitals throughout the country will see increased reimbursement for hospital inpatient services, rather than decreased reimbursement. Many hospitals are examining a multitude of options for debt financing and a number of the nation's hospital...

This paper is concerned with using similarity for case retrieval, especially in interactive case retrieval systems (ICRSs). We deene and exemplify similarity metrics, which are a generalisation of similarity measures, having any partial order as their result type. Within this new similarity metric setting, we deene the notion of thèbest' cases in case retrieval. We then show the variety of ways...