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Issues in capitation: risk of financial ruin for providers and ways to control this risk

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.
Date: October 1985
Creator: Vertrees, James G.; Tolley, Dennis & Manton, Kenneth
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Effects of office automation on the public sector workforce: a case study

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.
Date: April 1985
Creator: Greenbaum, Joan M.; Pullman, Cydney & Szymanski, Sharon
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Innovative use of information technology in facilitating public access to agency decisionmaking: an assessment of the experience in state and local governments: final report

Description: This report contains four sections. First part discusses methods and data collection, part two presents the framework, part three presents the findings from the brief sample survey of state and local agencies they conducted, as well as data from case studies dealing with use of information technology in providing public access to local government data. Part five evaluates the consistency of these findings and comment of their relevance for federal government considerations.
Date: March 1985
Creator: Kraeme, Kenneth L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Report on data protection and privacy in seven selected states

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.
Date: February 15, 1985
Creator: Smith, Robert E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Congressional applications of information technology

Description: This report discusses the implications of specific information technology applications on the Congress.
Date: February 1985
Creator: Frantzich, Stephen E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Life-sustaining technology and the elderly: geriatric expertise in the context of critical and terminal care

Description: This report of OTA has conducted a study of a wide range of topics, some of which have recently been receiving a great deal of scrutiny inside and outside the government. In order to derive information specific enough to guide possible congressional action and to be responsive to the requesting Committees, this examination of the issues is specifically tied to particular life-sustaining technologies and their use with patients who are elderly. At the same time, much of this information is appli… more
Date: November 22, 1985
Creator: American Geriatrics Society
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Reform of Medicare physician payment policies: impact on magnetic resonance imaging technology

Description: This report provides a brief description of the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), current research, safety and patient acceptance of the imaging technology. It discusses the current use of MRI, the medical evidence, current clinical applications and diffusion of MRI.
Date: September 1985
Creator: Iezzoni, Lisa I.; Grad, Oren & Moskowitz, Mark A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Implications of alternative Medicare payment methods for pneumoccal vaccination

Description: The purpose of this report is to: 1)update the estimated level of use of pneumococcal vaccine in the United States, 2)examine factors that influence its use, and 3) assess how, if at all, selected alternative payment methods might affect the use of this vaccine.
Date: October 1985
Creator: Riddiough, Michael A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nutritional support and hydration for critically and terminally ill elderly

Description: This report discusses the enteral or parenteral nutritional support as a therapy for anyone, including someone 65 or older, who is unable to meet his/her nutrition needs with meals and snack due to inadequate ingestion or impaired digestion or absorption.
Date: November 1985
Creator: Th Oley Foundation Inc.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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List of publications

Description: This report provides general information on categories of publications issued by OTA: Energy and materials, industry, technology and employment, international security and commerce, biological applications, food and renewable resources, health, communication and information technologies, oceans and environment, science, transportation and innovation.
Date: 1985?
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Evaluation of effects of the quality of care of selected alternatives for paying physicians under the Medicare program

Description: This report tries to anticipate the kinds of effects on the quality of personal health care services that would result from each of several alternative ways of paying for physician's services to Medicare patients.
Date: September 1985
Creator: Hammons, Glenn T.; Brook, Robert H. & Newhouse, Joseph P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Physicians' payment and their prescription of laboratory tests: the effects on clinical laboratory services of selected alternatives for paying physicians under the Medicare program

Description: This report discusses laboratory testing in light of physician payment methods under Medicare. The report focuses primarily on laboratory testing in the outpatient setting, assuming the impatient laboratory testing is covered by the DRG-based Prospective Payment System rates of Medicare.
Date: September 1985
Creator: Myers, Lois P.; Eisenberg, John M. & Pauly, Mark V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Payments to physicians in the Permanente Medical Group

Description: This report describes the function of The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG) to provide medical care to Health Plan members within the Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and their associated medical offices.
Date: August 1985
Creator: Collen, Morris F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Surveillance, historical policy review

Description: This report discusses the issues at the crossroads between privacy, security and civil liberties in one hand and law enforcement, national security, or effective administration on the other.
Date: March 15, 1985
Creator: Schwartz, Herman
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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