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Managed Care, HMOs & Evolution over Last Decade

the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...

MIS at Merck

is that of product information. This process may lead to increased value in the company. The idea is that the ability to...

Plea Bargaining

This 12-page paper deals with the effect of plea bargaining on the criminal justice system. It argues that the relatively new pra...

An Argument for a National Identification Card

what those horrors represented. This complacency is perhaps one of our greatest weaknesses. We must remind ourselves and those t...

Legalizing Abortion

are not right to lifers, the idea that someone is not born would immediately prompt the idea that the individual is not a person. ...

Banking Industry and Information Systems

culture to support effective marketing, sales, and service processes. CRM applications can enable effective Customer Relationship ...

Proposed Changes to the Existing Canadian Health Care System

Health Act, 2004). Nevertheless, recently the provincial government of British Columbia found it necessary to pass legislation lev...

Mobile Telephone Company and a Decision Support System

an industry (in this case, mobile telephone). Decision Support Systems Decision Support Systems, abbreviated DSS, refer to inter...

Object Oriented Database Systems (OODB)

by no means efficient. Ahn and Kim (2002) write that the upper layers of an OO database management system "should be adapted to t...

Comparing Federal and Texas State Judicial Systems

well as handling legal matters. Although literature is sparse as to why the Texas justices are elected rather than appoint...

Latin America and Africa Needs of Finanicial System Reform

to achieve and maintain without effective financial system structures, yet without economic growth there is little reason for plac...

Maintaining Component Based Software

services, and the glue codes (Szyperski, 1997). The component framework affords a selection of coordination of runtime services,...

Four Films and Their Portrayal of Crime and Judicial Procedures

element introduced when Utah encounters Bodhi, and is made to consider rather deeper philosophical aspects of life than the straig...

How Decisions Are Made

of decision making need to be appreciated. At the lower level there are operational decisions. These are the decision that are mad...

File Access Security Systems of UNIX

of bits maximum processors 2.4.2 Intel/Cyrix/AMD Pentium, 80486, 80386, 80286 (partial port), 8086 (partial port), IBM/Motoro...

Inventory Control at Toyota

Toyota, would arrive just in time to be used. Not only was the arrival important, but so was the quality, as where there is stock ...

Structural Inequality And Diversity

Plessy vs. Ferguson case in 1896, the court ruled that "separate but equal" was fine, it was okay to have separate schools for whi...

US System of Juvenile Justice and its Problems

is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...

Future Trends in Employee Motivation and Compensation within the Military

in the areas of experiences (inputs), activities (processes) and rewards (outputs) in a global context" (p. 613), but their primar...

Canadian Healthcare System

federal government provides direct health care services to specific demographic groups: "First Nations people living on reserves; ...

Health Care - United States vs Canada

knowledge safely and appropriately" (p. 17). Morath (2003) went so far as to state clearly that the U.S. healthcare system is dang...

Push 1 For English - The Automated Telephone Response

a representative, push [another number that is not always 0]" What happens when you get to a real live person? You have to tell th...

Mergers; Electrolux with Lehel and the Creation of BAE Systems

are as good could be imported into the rest of Europe. The immediate issue in the late 1980s early 1990s was not an immediate dang...

Nursing Economics/ Fiscal Realities

harms the healthcare systems of the home countries of these nurses, which ethically and morally limits its use. Another method t...

Creating a Fitness Center Information System

communicates bilaterally with the parent organizations financial, quality, human resources and other common area departments. Its...

Parliament or President?

Parliamentary government evolved in Great Britain, and "is today practiced in most of Europe, the Caribbean, Canada, India, and ma...

Information Systems; A Case of Two Airlines

information that can be used to enhance the service. The airline did not tie up the incoming and outgoing passenger information an...

Expense Payment System

additional checks create a system where systematic fraud is more difficult. This gives the company a good level of control over th...

Cost Accounting System for an Online Business

online business unit. Management Information and Control Systems The broad framework of MIC systems includes a variety of s...

Creating the Fitness Center Information System

state-of-the-art treatment in various areas of health care, its information system for its fitness center is woefully lacking from...