Recent Articles

• CMS changes meaningful use reporting period for 2016 to 90 days

  Scott E. Rupp Healthcare Administration

  ​Here’s looking at you, CMS. This hat is tipped for you. So must be the sentiment across thousands of healthcare organizations when in early July, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said that the meaningful use reporting period should be reduced from one year to just 90 days in 2016 for returning participants in the incentive program. "This increases flexibility and lowers the reporting burden for hospital providers," the organization said in a statement posted on its website.

• Highlighting the educational technology coach

  Brian Stack Education

  For the last decade or more, educational technology has been one of the hottest trends in American schools. While teachers are eager to make use of technology tools that can help them engage their students at deeper levels, it can be stressful to keep up with all that is happening in the ed tech world. As a classroom teacher, how do you decide what technology tools to use? When will you find time to learn how to use them effectively? Teachers cannot and should not be left to answer these questions on their own. For this reason, many schools are turning to the assistance of technology coaches.

• Why designers should use the Principles of Universal Design

  Susan Mulholland Interior Design, Furnishings & Fixtures

  Have you ever gone somewhere with your extended family and noticed how everyone deals with the space? We have a variety of age groups using the same space at the same time. The idea that our built environments have unseen obstacles is why many who study human behavior and ergonomics believe that, as our population continues to grow and ultimately age, we need to view every space people use as a place where easy accessibility is necessary. This will become more evident in the next few decades, when we will see a noticeable increase in people who are over the age of 50.

• Is your student having homework struggles? There’s one solution

  Howard Margolis Education

  Here's a phone call that closely resembles countless calls I've received, "My son struggles at least two hours a night to finish his homework. And often he gets it wrong. If his homework is incomplete, his grade goes down. He hates homework. What can I do?" You can prevent the problem with a policy statement allowed under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004.

• Automotive lightweighting trends on the move

  Don Rosato Engineering

  Auto lightweighting goals are driven by changes in government regulations for fuel emissions, ongoing global warming concerns, fluctuating fuel prices, the development of electric vehicles and other fuel systems, and spiraling car weight increases caused by the continual addition of car features. This article, the first of a three-part series about automotive lightweighting, focuses on key plastic materials, process technologies, and applications to take note of.

• Virtual, augmented reality arrive at K-12 schools

  Bambi Majumdar Education

  A new survey conducted by Samsung and GfK shows that 83 percent of K-12 teachers in the U.S. are eager to explore the possibilities of virtual reality (VR) lessons in the classroom. While 72 percent are interested in simulating experiences that are directly relevant to the course material, 69 percent want to use this emerging technology to take virtual field trips to faraway lands. More teachers are of the opinion that this will help improve students' comprehension of different concepts and motivate them to self-learn and collaborate with peers better.

• The excitement of Porsche shopping on Craigslist

  Skip Kuhn Transportation Technology & Automotive

  Shop, click, and find a car online, whatever style dot com. Car buying made easy. Yay, what fun! Might as well look for one with an automatic transmission while I’m at it. Whatever happened to scanning the classifieds in the Sunday morning paper with that intangible sense of adventure and anticipation that comes with finding what you are certain could be just the right car in just the right condition based only on a brief description and local phone number?

• How does your brand’s email marketing stack up?

  Emma Fitzpatrick Marketing

  IBM's annual Email Marketing Metrics Benchmark Study is hot off the presses. For email and digital marketers alike, it’s one of the best times of the year. This year’s report includes data from over 3,000 brands and 750 companies. Plus, it highlights opportunities you may be missing or not investing enough resources in. See how your brand’s email marketing stacks up to others by learning the biggest insights and takeaways from this year’s report.

• Numbers show continuing decline in youth sports participation

  Kate Hessong Sports & Fitness

  Childhood sports have been an American rite of passage for as long as many can remember, so it may come as a surprise to most people to hear that youth sports participation has been declining since 2014. According to the Sports & Fitness Industry Association, inactivity among children reached 20 percent in 2014, and grew to 37.1 percent in 2015. With these numbers, why are parents allowing their children to stop playing sports, when exercise is one of the most widely recognized methods to keep kids healthy and active?

• Networking for pharmacists 101

  Jason Poquette Pharmaceutical

  I sometimes ask my pharmacy students what they think will be the most important thing to help them reach their own career goals as a pharmacist. Is it the school you went to? Is it the degree(s) you obtained? How about residencies or certifications? In a previous article, I discussed the various types of pharmacy "add-on" degrees that pharmacists can obtain, along with the merits of each. But I would like to suggest that although certain add-on degrees may be good and necessary to reach some specific career goals you may have, there is actually another tool that may be even more important.

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