risks and how to evaluate healthcare contracts? The research questions in this series of three articles focus on how reimbursement strategies (especially Pay for Performance P4P), evaluation of measures and methods of risk adjustment can best be integrated in healthcare contracting. This last article of the series will spot light on the specific topic of risk adjustment as well as evaluation an...

Resource reservation has been widely used in many realtime systems to guarantee the proper access to the system resources. Despite that being the memory a key resource, it has attracted little attention in the specific area of realtime systems. In order to use dynamic memory in real-time systems, two fundamental problems have to be settled: allocation and deallocation in bounded time, and the f...

Contract services let service providers and consumers manage service level agreements (SLAs) and other contractual documents. These services let users negotiate SLAs, select tariffs, submit selected service offerings to auctions, view and manage running contracts and finally submit feedback about the satisfaction with the usage of contract-bound services. We define a number of contract services...

This paper deals with current (conceptual) issues in the field of contract management. We describe a basic contract life cycle with four phases: offer placement, offer confirmation (conclusion of the contract), fulfillment of duties (consumption of rights), and contract archiving. In our investigation of contract content, we identify core contract objects, usage-specific extension objects and t...

the study assessed beneficiaries’ satisfaction in the management of loag-contract components by cooperatives involved in the farm credit delivery in edo state. the objective was to identify the components of the farm loan contract, examine the management strategies and rate the beneficiaries’ satisfaction of such management strategies. this was done by purposively selecting 40 cooperatives invo...

Cross-organizational workflow management is an essential ingredient for process integration in virtual enterprises. To obtain cross-organizational workflow processes with robust semantics, these processes should be supported by highlevel cross-organizational transaction management. In this context, transaction management should support both intraand inter-organizational transaction semantics. A...

Approaches that CFOs and CIOs may consider when determining how to gain the most value from IT investments at the least cost include: Portfolio review. Contract review and negotiation. Contract negotiation. Analyses of IT spend, return, labor productivity, and strategic projects. Lifecycle management. Data management. Taking advantage of crisis.

Disease management programs are one strategy used by health plans, employers, and public payers to contain the rising health care costs of individuals with complex chronic diseases. Typically, health plans contract with disease management firms or groups of specialty providers to manage and care for particular subsets of patients. For instance, they may ‘carve out’ or contract with a disease ma...