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Office of Technology Assessment
Issues in capitation: risk of financial ruin for providers and ways to control this risk
Date: October 1985
Creator: Vertrees, James G.
Description: The purpose of this report is to explore issues relating to healthcare expenses. To examine the concept of risk for providers in a capitation payment environment and to estimate the effectiveness of various risk limiting techniques.
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Effects of office automation on the public sector workforce: a case study
Date: April 1985
Creator: Greenbaum, Joan M.
Description: The objective of this report is to identify and explore conditions under which office automation has been successfully and productively implemented in New York city municipal offices.
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Scenarios of five federal agencies (1991-95) as shaped by information technology: a report to the Federal Government Information Technology Project
Date: June 21, 1985
Creator: Hitchcock, Henry H.
Description: This report concentrates on the impacts of telecommunications and computer technology over the next ten years on the civil sector of the federal government.
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Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy: clinical application and Medicare physician payment
Date: August 1985
Creator: Showstack, Jonathan A.
Description: This report discusses the new methods of paying physicians; fee schedules, payment for an episode-of-illness, and capitation payments.
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Evaluation of ethical implications of selected alternatives for paying physicians under the Medicare program
Date: October 1985
Creator: Capron, Alexander M.
Description: This report discusses the effects of changes in Medicare reimbursement methods, examines the ethical considerations, and classifies the alternative payment methods.
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Background paper on cataract surgery and physician payment under the Medicare program
Date: October 1985
Creator: Garrison Jr., Louis P.
Description: This report both describes current clinical and economic aspects of cataract surgery and analyzes how alternative methods of paying physicians might affect cataract surgery in the future.
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Federal computers and telecommunications: security and reliability considerations and computer crime legislative options
Date: February 1985
Creator: Sherizen, Sanford
Description: This report concentrates on two major topics: The adequacy of security and reliability policies of the federal government and Computer crime trends and limitations to legislative responses to current and future technological developments.
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Congressional applications of information technology
Date: February 1985
Creator: Frantzich, Stephen E.
Description: This report discusses the implications of specific information technology applications on the Congress.
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Report on data protection and privacy in seven selected states
Date: February 15, 1985
Creator: Smith, Robert E.
Description: This report describes the privacy protections in effect in seven selected states in the U.S., along with the extent of personal data collection in the states, with particular emphasis on "computer matching" at the state level.
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Life sustaining technologies and the elderly: prolonged mechanical ventilation
Date: October 15, 1985
Creator: Goldberg, Allen I.
Description: This report aims to identify the tasks assigned by the OTA and their major sections. The issues of concern to the OTA, and those who make contributions to their discussion, are shown.
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