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Standardizing physician peer review in the ambulatory setting is evolving as value-based reimbursement and population health grow. In this article, the authors show how one large health care system in the western United States standardized ambulatory care provider peer review across multistate divisions, with consideration of the legal issues, specific tactics and process-flow implementation., BANNER HEALTH IS A HEALTH CARE SYSTEM of more than 50,000 employees, based in Phoenix, Arizona. It is one of the largest health care systems in the United States. Its [...]

The and space are Hollywood's stock in trade. A good plot may find its way into a play or a novel, but only a filmmaker is able to jump impossible [...]

Technology, Trends, and Gizmos (*1): A Timeline for the '90s...and Beyond A Computer Under Every Teacher's Arm As laptop computers become smaller and lighter, a major teacher's organization, inspired by […]

Movieguide honors the best family movies and inspirational entertainment while showing that sex, nudity and violence aren't the cornerstones of American entertainment after all. Hollywood is making more movies with [...]

With advances in genetic engineering, it is now possible to screen employees and potential employees for possible predispositions to diseases that could be aggravated by exposure to hazardous substances on the job. Currently two methods exist; genetic screening, which is an initial one-time only test and genetic monitoring, which involves routine testing throughout an employee's working life. Both procedures hold within them several ethical and legal implications which will require thorough research and guidelines.

I don't know if anyone has already reported, but the 2012 cents from Philadelphia have shown up in Wisconsin. On the other hand, I have yet to receive any national [...]

For the last five years, I have been a currency appraiser for Milwaukee's Channel 10 'Appraisal Fair,' which is run just like the Antiques Road Show, only local. Appraisal tickets [...]

I was talking with Dave Hunsicker of West Bend, and we arranged to go together to the Higgins Museum Seminar in Okoboji next week. He told me that he frequents [...]

I didn't get to the Central States Numismatic Society show in Rosemont, Ill., until the opening bell on Saturday. , April 30. While on the way in I passed the [...]

'MANUFACTURING? You don't want to work on an assembly line the rest of your life, do you?' 'Manufacturing jobs are moving to China, where the labor's cheap. There won't be [...]

They tried to tone down the politics at the 78th annual Oscar ceremony on February 5, despite the controversial, leftist, secular nature of most of the nominees and winners. They […]

In your '2004 Tow Vehicle of the Year' test (March), you state that midway through your testing period, you decided to eliminate vehicles with tow ratings less than 8000 pounds, [...]

After reading the article by Glenn and Maxine Bamburg about touring in 'Wyoming's Big Horn Country' (February), I see a few flaws. While I agree totally that this area is [...]

Ventura County's commercial real estate brokers continued their quest to find tenants for the dwindling amount of available Class A office and industrial space during the second quarter. That space [...]

The article presents the proceeding of a panel discussion on the writers markets in the U.S. during the Screenwriting Expo 4 Awards at the Los Angeles Convention Center in California in November 2005. The panel includes Ted Baehr, Simon R. Swart, Dave Alan Johnson, Ken Wales, Jeff Holder, Bill Ewing, among others. They discussed issues related to the Christian, family, gay and lesbian, teen, branded entertainment and reality programming markets.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including one related to the merit system plan of Major General Phillip Davidson Jr. for army recruits in the June 29, 1970 issue, one related to the dismissal of University of California, Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.) staff Miss Angela Davis in the June 29, 1970 issue, and one on the rattlesnakes of Pinole, California, in the June 29, 1970 issue.

The article offers information on the considering the sale of dental clinics to dental service organizations (DSOs) or to dental management organizations (DMOs). Topics discussed include unlimited capital resources for development and acquisition of new practices; ability to provide dentists with well-defined management systems, operational support; and economics of scale; and considering dental clinics as highest-yielding investments by investors.

The article presents a report about the predictions made by the visionaries in the past anniversaries issues of the journal "Technology & Learning" about the future in educational technologies. In 1991, as the U.S. steadily loses its worldwide lead in technology; a worried federal government initiates a program of significant funding for school technology support. It is titled the `National Defense Educational Technology Act' to ensure its passage. Kids can throw their tablet-sized computers into backpacks and take them home, to the library on a field trip anywhere they need to take notes. Back in the classroom, students beam up what they've written on their own tablets to a large screen hanging on the wall and share their ideas with the group. Experts predict that within the next five years people will need to merely dictate phone numbers and addresses into the personal digital assistants, instead of typing them in. In 1999, a presidential commission has been established to study the growing inequity in computer allocation. Apparently, most computers are being used to deliver instruction to poor inner-city schools, putting these students at a clear disadvantage.

The article presents questions and answers related to buying a dental practice in which the selling dentist employs his wife as the office manager.

The article provides answers to a question concerning on staying in dental practice, even after its sale and payment of the flat rate base including commission to dentist.

A photograph of glider pilot Sandy Snyder with her instructor Sarah Arnold is presented.