Pay-for-performance programs are growing, but little evidence exists on their effectiveness or on their potential unintended consequences and effects on the patient-physician relationship. Pay-for-performance has the potential to help improve the quality of care, if it can be aligned with the goals of medical professionalism. Initiatives that provide incentives for a few specific elements of a ...

EMBASSI is a joint research project with 19 partners from industry and academia. Its focus is the development new paradigms and architectures for the intuitive interaction with technical infrastructures of the everyday life, such as home entertainment and control, public terminals, and car infotainment systems. As a so-called focus project, EMBASSI is funded by the German Ministry of Education ...

Introduction Often caught within the complexities of e-business software innovation, a designer may feel at odds trying to propagate a healthy balance of user experience value while serving personal goals as well as the corporate agenda, whether it’s coordination, enforcement, and so forth. Delivering this value involves playing multiple roles, with limited resources. Underscoring these tension...

Active improvised music therapy may offer an adjuvant from of treatment in the early rehabilitation of severe brain-injured patients. Active music therapy consists of musical improvisation between patient and therapist by singing or by playing different musical instruments, according to the vital functions, the neurological conditions and the motor abilities of the patients. We studied 34 sever...

The association between human computer interaction methods within traditional design methods is presented in this paper. The engineering degree of industrial design and product development is composed by subjects and an international mobility program that facilitates this relationship. For this reason the role playing model is used with the aim to work with multidisciplinary teams. This paper s...

Objective: In this study, we aimed to investigate the effect of Music Therapy (MT) along with Play Therapy (PT) on increasing appropriate Social Behaviors (SBs) and decreasing inappropriate stereotyped behaviors of children with autism. Methods: This is an experimental study, and we used pre-test and post-test control group design to analyze the data. The study sample included 30 children with...