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“According to the Business Roundtable Health Care Value Comparability Study, a new measure of the value (cost and performance) of the U.S. health care system relative to our competitors systems on a weighted scale, the workers and employers of the United States face a 23 percent value gap relative to five leading economic competitors …
Health Care Value Comparability Study: Executive Summary – “According to the
“For more than two decades, Hewitt Associates’ health care survey has tracked employer health care practices, benefit programs, and efforts to provide and manage workforce health benefits. This report, Challenges for Health Care in Uncertain Times, highlights employer-sponsored health care programs and other benefits including short- and long-term cost trends, strategy, and design features. In …
News release: “Despite marketing claims like gentle and pure, dozens of top-selling childrens bath products are contaminated with the cancer-causing chemicals formaldehyde and 1,4-dioxane, according to product test results released today by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. The chemicals were not disclosed on product labels because contaminants are exempt from labeling laws. This study is …
Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report: “Twenty-one percent of U.S. residents reported having difficulty paying for needed medical care or medications in December 2008, up from 18% in January 2008, according to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, USA Today reports. The poll, conducted by Gallup and disease management company Healthways, surveyed an estimated 1,000 U.S. residents each …
News release: “The Worlds 50 Safest Banks 2009 were selected through a comparison of the long-term credit ratings and total assets of the 500 largest banks around the world. Ratings from Moodys, Standard & Poors and Fitch were used.” [Note: only two U.S. banks on this list – 26. US Bancorp and 47. JPMorgan Chase] …
“Media Cloud is a system that lets you see the flow of the media. The Internet is fundamentally altering the way that news is produced and distributed, but there are few comprehensive approaches to understanding the nature of these changes. Media Cloud automatically builds an archive of news stories and blog posts from the web, …
GOOD [via theeconomysucks – [“a collaboration of individuals, businesses, and nonprofits pushing the world forward”]: informative, insightful, infographics on Making Sense of the Financial Mess. Related postings on financial system
International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR): Countering Online Radicalisation: A Strategy for Action “Political extremists and terrorists are increasingly using the internet as an instrument for radicalisation and recruitment. What can be done to counter their activities? Countering Online Radicalisation examines the different technical options for making radical internet content …
Post-Conference Workshop on Competitive Intelligence, April 2, 2009 – 1:30 PM 4:30 PM, Sabrina I. Pacifici, Law Librarian, & Founder/Editor/Publisher, LLRX.com and beSpacific.com Librarians, competitive intelligence (CI) experts, and knowledge specialists will all benefit from this seminar focused on key, reliable, low-cost, as well as free, resources, services, tools, techniques and applications, including social …
Official Google Blog: “Do you leave your fridge door open after grabbing what you need? Do you leave your vacuum cleaner running when you aren’t cleaning? Of course not. The idea of doing either of these things sounds silly, yet many people don’t think to turn off their computers after using them. By using power …
LLRX.com – Knowledge Discovery Resources 2009: An Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation – Marcus P. Zillman’s compilation is dedicated to the latest and most reliable resources for knowledge discovery available through the Internet. This wide ranging selection of resources provides specialized tools, applications and sources relevant to researchers from many disciplines.
