Recent Articles
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The 3 P’s of employee terminations
D. Albert Brannen Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementThe vast majority of employment-related lawsuits follow the termination of an employee. Employers can minimize their legal liability by considering the “three P's” of employee terminations: people, procedures and paperwork.
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Focus and growth on nutritious snacks for children
Bambi Majumdar Food & Beverage“Smart Snacks in Schools,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s new regulation, has found a stronger advocate. First lady Michelle Obama has just announced the “school wellness standards,” which will determine healthier food availability in school cafeterias as well as establish stringent marketing regulations that will curb all junk food propaganda in and around schools.
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Academic conversation develops deep comprehension: Specific procedures…
David Irwin EducationAcademic conversation is a strategy that increases student engagement and comprehension in content topics. It is ideal for English learners because it gives them a safe environment to practice academic English with a peer who has more mastery. In the third part of this three-part series, we’ll discuss specific procedures as well as an assessment of the entire conversation.
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Quartzite experience
Michael Charland Travel, Hospitality & Event ManagementQuartzite, AZ, can accommodate hundreds of thousands of snowbirds to the area for up to six months during the winter. A big attraction is the free dry camping on BLM land that is all around the town, the great Arizona weather in the winter and the annual RV Rock and Gem show in January.
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Has linear video topped out?
Mitch Weinraub CommunicationsLinear video isn't going away anytime soon. Live sports, news and real-time programs like "American Idol" and "The Voice" will keep people watching live, linear TV and tuning in to appointment television for the foreseeable future. However, 2014 may be the year that cable television engineers will finally stop having to focus so much of their energy on launching new linear video channels.
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Telemedicine: The future of medicine
Rosemary Sparacio Medical & Allied HealthcareThere are many reasons for the increasingly prevalent use of telemedicine. What may have started out as a way to deliver improved health care services to rural areas, has now exploded to include ways to extend the availability of services to everyone and produce cost benefits both to health care providers and to the patient.
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Is pharmaceutical biotech investment at risk?
Mike Wokasch Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementHigh profitability, strong cash positions, large global healthcare market opportunities, reliable dividends, and perceived security and stability have provided Big Pharma Biotech investors a solid basis for investment rationale. On the other hand, increasing cost of R & D, prolonged time to market, pricing pressures, marketing constraints, and regulatory uncertainty and challenges are now eroding investor confidence and interest.
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Prescription drug overdose – Can we be honest?
Jason Poquette PharmaceuticalWaste Management & EnvironmentalSome topics tend to generate more heat than light, and prescription drug overdose is one of them. Type in the word “addiction” or “overdose” into any news search engine, and you will quickly have a list of articles longer than the half-life of methadone to manage. And this isn’t surprising. The number of deaths attributed to drug overdose in America is climbing.
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Insurers invoking all-product clauses to fill exchange plan networks
Pamela Lewis Dolan Healthcare AdministrationSome physicians are experiencing confusion and surprise by learning they are contracted to accept patients covered by insurance exchange plans despite the fact they rejected offers to participate in those plans. Plans are invoking what is known as an “all-product clause.” This is a provision many physicians may not be aware are present in their contracts, but essentially force physicians contracted in a particular payer plan to participate in all of the plans offered by that payer in the state, including those offered through the exchanges.
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17 of the most specific, bizarre ICD-10 codes
Charlotte Bohnett Healthcare AdministrationCome October, healthcare professionals will go from using the library of 13,000 codes in ICD-9 to that of 68,000 in ICD-10. As The New York Times explains, the new code set “allows for much greater detail than the existing code [set], ICD-9, in describing illnesses, injuries and treatment procedures. That could allow for improved tracking of public health threats and trends, and better analysis of the effectiveness of various treatments.”