J Adv Pract Oncol 2012;3:330–332 The dreaded memo came on a Friday afternoon (as dreaded memos often seem to do). It read: “You must sign up for training for the change from Cerner to the Epic System.” Insert any vendor’s name in place of either of these two electronic health record (EHR) systems,1 and the feeling of dread it brings on is the same. My first question was “Why?” The current syste...

Sixteen months ago, comparative effectiveness research (CER) began its rapid rise, when the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 allocated $1.1 billion for CER. This progress report summarizes how the recipients of the funds-the National Institutes of Health, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-are...

Studio K, a relatively new quasi-public space in a gentrifying multi-ethnic neighborhood in Amsterdam East, is a prime example of the growing urban reinvestment within the area. The basic idea behind the by students managed Studio K is to create a cultural centre as an open place, including a cinema, restaurant, bar and club, where all visitors feel at home. It is the form and content that rend...

The Virtual Corporation is a research initiative at Arizona State University that introduces multidisciplinary, concurrent-design techniques into the undergraduate engineering curriculum. Sponsored by the ARPA Technology Reinvestment Program and supported by industrial partners, The Virtual Corporation offers participants a unique opportunity to work with students from several academic discipli...

The returns that institutional investors realize from private equity investments differ dramatically across institutions. Using detailed and hitherto unexplored records of fund investors and performance, we document large heterogeneity in the performance of different classes of limited partners. In particular, endowments’ annual returns are nearly 14% greater than average. Funds selected by inv...

Let G be a directed graph embedded on a surface of genus g with b boundary cycles. We describe an algorithm to compute the shortest non-contractible cycle in G in O((g3 + g b)n log n) time. Our algorithm improves the previous best known time bound of (g + b)O(g+b)n log n for all positive g and b. We also describe an algorithm to compute the shortest non-null-homologous cycle in G in O((g2 + g b...

In recent years, there has been a growing momentum to establish healthier environments within communities. For example, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 led to the initiative, Communities Putting Prevention to Work, which provided funding for addressing health inequities (IOM, 2012). One year later, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 was passed with t...

Under President Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the federal government is offering incentives to physicians to adopt electronic health records. The goal is to improve quality of care and constrain costs. Higher incentive payments are available for those physicians who act quickly to meet the government's standards. Physicians who practice in "health professional shortage...

We consider the dynamic order acceptance and capacity planning problem under limited regular and non-regular resources. The goal consists of maximizing the expected profits of the accepted projects within a finite problem horizon. Capacity planning is a useful tool to support tactical decisions such as due-date quotation, price quotation and hiring non-regular capacity. The way the projects are...

In this paper we show how IS research can contribute to two major issues many societies face today – dealing with the decreasing availability of easily accessible fossil fuels and the threat of climate change. We introduce an IS artifact that uses historical data on energy consumption, energy generation, and mobility behavior to unleash synergies between residential photovoltaic panels and elec...