Sentences with phrase «system outcomes for»

The StatsCan report, Mandatory minimum penalties: An analysis of criminal justice system outcomes for selected offences, written by Mary Allen and released on Tuesday, notes that for charges of selected sexual violations of children, the proportion of summary cases resulting in guilty findings increased from 72 per cent to 77 per cent, while the increase in custody sentences for guilty cases jumped from 37 per cent to 85 per cent.

In «Quality and Equity in American Education: Systemic Problems, Systemic Solutions,» the authors write that continuous improvement is focused on system outcomes for a defined population of beneficiaries and the processes that lead to those results.

Not exact matches

These missed appointments can lead to poor health outcomes, increased emergency department visits and hospitalizations, and lost revenue for health systems — as much as $ 150 billion in the US every year, according to Health Management Technology.

The move by these hugely successful companies is, in fact, only the latest in a slew of corporate actions aimed at reconfiguring healthcare in the U.S. — a system where outcomes, for the most part, remain woefully disconnected from costs, and where those costs continue to soar without the mooring of reason.

But no matter the outcome, critics of the agency have begun laying the groundwork for the Trumpadministration to make dramatic changes to the institution at the heart of President Barack Obama's overhaul of the financial system.

For a more affordable and effective system, Tyson says medical institutions have to focus on patient outcomes, not healthcare inputs (like how many CT scans and blood tests a physician orders).

He has spoken out against A.I. throughout the last several years, sometimes describing apocalyptic scenarios in which even seemingly harmless technology, like a system used to pick strawberries, can have catastrophic outcomes for humans.

The review for downgrade will focus on the outcome of the ongoing external audits of the Spanish banking system, the conditionality and details of the EFSF / ESM loan agreement, and the specific execution strategy developed for the banking system's recapitalisation.

Systems science is an interdisciplinary field that studies how the interaction of factors produces outcomes — how the causes and consequences of events can, taken together, form the basis for everything from a disease epidemic, to a pattern of human behavior.

Specifically, Dimon wrote in his annual letter, that the US healthcare system can improve when it comes to treating chronic conditions that are preventable or reversible, spending less on administrative and fraud costs, and on getting better health outcomes for lower costs.

In fact, this kind of negotiated tax increase might be a far preferable outcome for the world's savers, investors and high - income earners than the increasingly likely alternative: persistent uncertainty over the global financial system or the consummation of that uncertainty in an asset - value - destroying economic downturn.

The letter included six points of focus for the company, including aligning payments with better medical outcomes for patients instead of simply paying for each medical service, which is how the current system is built.

But let's consider two major positives: First, with both patients and stakeholders investing in our healthcare system, we're all on the same team: We all want to see more positive outcomes for our loved ones and improvements in the health of our nation, both literally and financially.

David Roman of Goldman Sachs Research shares how an Internet of Things - enabled US healthcare system could result in better outcomes for patients and efficiency gains across the healthcare space.

Indeed, it can be argued that the multi-party system was designed to ensure that genuine democracy, measured by outcomes for ordinary people, could never be achieved.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

Vertically integrated provider of value - based Kidney Care solutions for Health Systems and Payers delivering improved patient outcomes at reduced costs.

The Abacus study also asked those who voted in the 2015 Canadian General Election to rank a ballot that included the main political parties and generated data for 11 regions to estimate, with increased precision, the outcome of the Canadian election had it been run under different electoral systems.

The most likely outcome of Facebook's current scandal continues to be that nothing will happen, for all of the inherent lethargy in our political system noted above.

Jain elaborated on those successes in an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association last year, noting the efficiencies lead to better outcomes for patients, who can more reliably receive routine medical care and stay out of emergency rooms; doctors, who can more easily manage patients» chronic conditions; and cost - savings for the broader medical system, as managing chronic disease is substantially cheaper than repeated ER visits.

«Given the number of Aboriginal children in care, and their expected outcomes in this system, this critical issue should be at the top of the government's agenda, and the subject of a clear plan for improvement.

He contrasts this with the potential outcomes for Bitcoin and why it will be difficult for it to ever have a monetary takeover of our conventional monetary system.

Clearly, there are important externalities in the RTGS system: what might constitute optimal liquidity management for an individual bank will not always be an efficient outcome for the system as a whole.

Overall individuals pay less for this system than we pay and they have better health outcomes.

This is certainly an interesting article which raises a legitimate question for those of faith as well as for those without any specific spiritual belief system: Does God care who wins and if so, why and how much and what influence does He have over the outcome?

In order for a scientific system to reach «theory» stage, we have a solid structure of facts that when tested, reproducibly produce predictable outcomes.

I have said that conservatism is 5 % people who game the system (like the slave holders of old) and 95 % useful idiots those who fight for them but have no interest in the outcome (used by the system — manipulated)!

Our understanding of these explanations and models allows for us to predict the likeliness of outcomes, increasing our certainty of systems, resulting in... you guessed it, TECHNOLOGY.

«Obamacare» introduced the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) which (for once) monitored outcomes 6.

Thus, non-deterministic (or non-predictable) outcomes must occur for all dynamical systems if they are examined at a sufficiently refined scale of computational analysis.8

But bring it into politics, and there is no way for the outcome to be fair to a majority... only to those that follow the same belief system.

I have seen warnings and heard of negative health outcomes in regards to killing off candida for people who have high levels of mercury in their systems.

A secondary benefit to the delivery of an in - channel action for native fish outcomes was that the flow delivered benefits the length of the system and contributed to hydrological connectivity and vegetation outcomes in the terminal wetlands.

The final volume of water recovered for the environment is dependent on the outcome of two work programs that may either increase or decrease the surface water sustainable diversion limits; one to remove river system constraints and the other to improve the efficiency of environmental water delivery.

For further information about Commonwealth environmental watering in the Lower Murray - Darling river system and the outcomes achieved, please refer to the Commonwealth environmental water Outcomes Reports and Annual outcomes achieved, please refer to the Commonwealth environmental water Outcomes Reports and Annual Outcomes Reports and Annual Reports.

He also outlines the ACCC's role in ensuring privatisation delivers for consumers, improving the functioning of the financial system given the competition focus of the Murray report, ensuring a smooth transition for consumers to NBN services and reviewing water rules to improve outcomes in the Murray - Darling Basin.

Unconscionable conduct (agrees with NFF that they have not provided protection and support reforms «to provide transparency in the supply chain» and recognise that «certain classes of suppliers... are predisposed to suffering from a special disadvantage...»; misuse of market power (legal framework must «level the balance of market power in negotiations...», «ensure transparency in the transmission of market prices» and «not allow for final market risks to be borne by the primary producer» and provide «transparency of contract processes» - specifically, Canegrowers supports effects test and a process giving ACCC greater power to «regulate anti-competitive behaviour and impose penalties», shifting «the decisions framework from the judicial system to a regulatory system» which would make it more accessible to small producers); collective bargaining (notes limits of Sugar Industry Act (Qld); authorisation and notification approval costly and limited and not a viable alternative - peak bodies should be able to «commence and progress collective bargaining with mills on behalf of their members» and current threshold too restrictive)» competitive neutrality (mixed outcomes - perverse outcomes in the case of natural monopolies - suggest remove «application of competitive neutrality provisions to natural monopoly essential services»)

Having spent 20 years in the trenches of the NYC criminal justice system as a grunt, I will offer my prognistication for McGregor's outcome...

THE issues are DM (which hasn't been addressed for 2 years), the defensive depth / argument that Per should be replaced, the 4 -1-4-1 system that stinks, the decisions of having having ozil wide and alexis dropped for key games, and the absolute inability to be tactically dynamic or make bold decisions MID-GAME to change the outcome.

Called the Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes Reporting System, it dispatches nurses to the babies» homes to monitor their growth and development, for up to two years if necessary.

What they wanted was somebody to show them what to do and to help them, and not having that help is costing the Government and the devolved Administrations through the outcomes for those babies, as they are more likely to cost the NHS more in later life; through the outcomes for the mothers; and through the outcomes for some mothers who really struggle with having to give up breastfeeding, and end up in the mental health system as a result.

(I am an Australian midwife and also had homebirths prior to becoming a midwife) Your system in America is quite radically different to ours here in Australia and so we don't have the same problem with poorly trained and undereducated midwives and although we still have ideologically driven midwifery, where process is promoted over outcome, we have strict protocols, guidelines and governance at all levels to ensure dangerous midwives are prevented from continuing to practice and women and their families are protected and have recourse for compensation.

The MANA Stats web - based system was touted by attendees as the best data collection system for home birth outcomes.

As children have a right to be cared for by both parents the state should be improving the overall chances of this happening, rather than stacking obstacles against this outcome as the current tax system does.

We believe that collaboration within an integrated maternity care system is essential for optimal mother - baby outcomes.

For example, the Dutch home - birth system (in which home birth is common and adverse outcomes are rare) includes formal collaborative agreements between out - of - hospital and in - hospital providers, clear and mutually agreed - upon stratification of risk, and protocols for the transfer of care.35, 36 The process of devising evidence - based guidelines for U.S. home births is under wayFor example, the Dutch home - birth system (in which home birth is common and adverse outcomes are rare) includes formal collaborative agreements between out - of - hospital and in - hospital providers, clear and mutually agreed - upon stratification of risk, and protocols for the transfer of care.35, 36 The process of devising evidence - based guidelines for U.S. home births is under wayfor the transfer of care.35, 36 The process of devising evidence - based guidelines for U.S. home births is under wayfor U.S. home births is under way.37

Based on those numbers, one may think, «Well, if we are investing so much more in our births and medical system, the outcome for mother and baby must be favorable.»

The statement outlines the health care system components that the authors say are critical to reducing perinatal mortality rates and achieving favorable home birth outcomes, and makes a number of recommendations for use when considering planned home birth.

They don't even include any references to the large - scale studies in Canada [6] and the Netherlands [7] that has found no increased risk for homebirth versus hospital birth and one US study looking at an integrated system (like those in Canada and the Netherlands) found the same outcome [8](nudge, nudge, USA).

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