Multinationals and the National Interest: Playing by Different Rules
Date: September 1993
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This report is intended as an introduction to and overview of the issues that affect multinational firms and the U.S. technology base.
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Making Government Work: Electronic Delivery of Federal Services
Date: September 1993
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This report focuses on key topics and issues that are central to the successful use of electronic deli very by government. This report provides Congress with alternative strategies for improving the performance of government by using modern information technologies.
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The Social Security Administration's Decentralized Computer Strategy: Issues and Options
Date: April 1994
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: The report highlights some of the opportunities and challenges faced by a major federal agency in: 1 ) implementing the Administration’s “National Performance Review and “National Information Infrastructure” programs, and 2) addressing issues raised in OTA’s 1993 report Making Government Work: Electronic Delivery of Federal Services.
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Testing and Assessment in Vocational Education
Date: March 1994
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: The paper has six major purposes, in order to analyze the uses of tests used in vocational programs, particularly those designed to measure broad technical skills, identify trends in vocational assessment, and identify policy issues relevant to improving test development and quality.
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Biomedical Ethics in U.S. Public Policy
Date: June 1993
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This report reviews the history of four Federal bioethics initiatives: the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, the Ethics Advisory Board, the President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research, and the Biomedical Ethics Advisory Committee.
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Benefit Design in Health Care Reform: Clinical Preventive Services
Date: September 1993
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This Report examines the evidence on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of selected clinical preventive services, and whether and how this information might be used to design insurance benefits.
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An Inconsistent Picture: A Compilation of Analyses of Economic Impacts of Competing Approaches to Health Care Reform by Experts and Stakeholders
Date: June 1993
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This report reviews numerous analyses of the economic impacts of the major approaches to health care reform addressed in this Report-Single Payer, Play-or-Pay, Individual Vouchers or Tax Credits, and Managed Competition and identifies some of the key issues and significant assumptions behind the estimates provided in these analyses.
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Contributions of DOE Weapons Labs and NIST to Semiconductor Technology
Date: September 1993
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This report examines how NIST and DOE weapons laboratories could contribute to advances in semiconductor technology aimed specifically at civilian applications. Semiconductor technology was chosen as an example of a technology focus for a civilian technology initiative, primarily because the industry had already developed a set of comprehensive technology roadmaps and the federal labs had substantial expertise in the area.
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Biopolymers: Making Materials Nature's Way
Date: September 1993
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This report discusses a study that provides a basic introduction to biopolymer technology; profiles some of the more promising polymer materials; reviews research activities in the United States, Europe, and Japan; and describes the principal technical challenges and regulatory issues that may affect biopolymer commercialization efforts.
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Benefit Design in Health Care Reform: Patient Cost-Sharing
Date: September 1993
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This paper examines the health services and economics literature to learn what is known about the effects of patient cost-sharing (that is, annual deductibles, coinsurance, copayments, and out-of-pocket maximurns) on patients’ use of health care services, on plan expenditures, and on patients’ health outcomes.
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