- The healthcare industry: Under managed care
The healthcare industry includes establishments that provide medical, surgical, and other health services. The industry includes individual practitioners, clinics, and hospitals, as well as medical and dental laboratories, home health services, and specialty outpatient facilities. The industry is distinct from the insurance industry, which often provides payment for medical services, ......
- U.S. HEALTHCARE EXHIBITION IN CUBA.
United States healthcare companies have been authorized by the U.S. Government to participate in a U.S. Healthcare Exhibition from January 25-29, 2000, at the 50,000 sq ft Pabexpo Exhibition Center in Havana, Cuba: The U.S. Healthcare Exhibition is being held in Cuba with the authorization of the Ministry of Public ......
- Establishing and Sustaining Healthcare Operations in a Contingency: A Logistical Perspective
Healthcare executives are faced with a daunting new task of being able to respond to terrorist activities that can disrupt the established healthcare system. The preplanned programs and skill sets developed by military healthcare executives can be adopted by civilian leaders to ensure the rapid establishment or continuation of healthcare ......
- Quinnipiac Offers New MBA in Health Care
Quinnipiac University's School of Business will begin offering a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in health care management. this fall. The new program combines core courses from Quinnipiac's MBA program with courses in health care management. Students will become proficient in business skills - accounting, finance, management and computer information ......
- Industry Helps Fuel R&D Funding
Upswing.
Total R&D expenditures in the United States are expected to increase about 5 percent to $277 billion in 2001, according to the annual Battelle--R&D Magazine research and development forecast. The increase is largely driven by industrial support, which continues to dominate both the amount and growth of R&D spending. However, ......
- R&D funding shortfalls are beginning to express
themselves in benchmarks measuring U.S. wealth.
Some of America's leading industrialists, researchers and academics are working together to raise alarms over the declining state of science, technology, engineering and innovation in the Untied States. Fast-growing rivals in Asia and the continued paltry commitment being made by the federal government to funding basic research in the physical ......
- Department of Homeland Security will have big S&T component
On November 25, after months of partisan debate over personnel rules, President Bush signed legislation establishing a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with the primary mission of preventing terrorist attacks within the United States. DHS will bring together nearly 170,000 federal employees and up to $35 billion in annual ......