Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) Program
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Health Information Exchanges Most people today have a primary care doctor and then periodically visit specialists, labs, and a handful of other health care providers. Going along with the above paradigm, each health care provider that a patient visits would then...Health Information Systems
Health Information Systems Most of the current health system is reactive; a person seeks out medical help, whether at a local hospital, doctor’s office, or clinic. Each individual health provider, if they implement electronic medical records, will contain their own...Personal Health Records and Patient Portals
Personal Health Records and Patient Portals Personal Health Records (PHR) and Patient Portals are two separate and distinct entities that are often confused for the same thing. A personal health record is a tool that allows a patient to keep track of their medical...Professional Tongue Visualization for MRI
Professional Tongue Visualization for MRI Professional level work for tongue motion has involved many different technologies to observe the tongue, due to the fact it is difficult to observe in the oral cavity. In order to fully understand speech sound articulation...Professional Full Body Motion Capture and Audio Pronunciation without Visual Motion Feedback
Professional Full Body Motion Capture Professional motion capture systems such as Vicon’s systems offer precisions “down to 0.5 mm of translation and 0.5 degrees of rotation” but to create a system with this level of accuracy it requires a large acting space and...Video Games Fitness and Health
Video Games Fitness and Health Since the early 2000’s video game developers have begun integrating cameras and other tracking peripherals to try to make a more immersive experience. For example the entire Nintendo Wii system was based around a Wii Remote controller...Resilient Systems
Resilient Systems AI obstacle. Two issues with advancing AI usage are the lack of extensive knowledge base capabilities, and the ability to learn. The element of complexity appears to be that an AI system must retain a vast spectrum of knowledge and traits that allow...Mitigating IC Vulnerabilities
Mitigating IC Vulnerabilities Service vs. security. The constructs of service before security led to the development of OPC-UA architecture. Business proficiency pushed improvement of the original design of Object Linking and Embedding (OLE). The development of OPC-UA...IC Security Deficiency
IC Security Deficiency Absence of law. Attempts at improving cyber legislation have been deficient. The absence of legislation causes issues for CIKR. The lack of production led to an executive order issued by the Obama Administration (Godreau, 2013). In February of...Image Guided Radiation Therapy
Introduction Radiation therapy utilizes ionizing radiation with the goal of curing or palliating disease and minimizing damage to healthy tissue. Localization using Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) is performed in order to ensure tumor location and minimize...Bilingual Intervention In Bilingual Children With ASD
Bilingual Intervention In Bilingual Children With ASD Research on language of intervention in bilingual children with ASD is limited. There is a lack of research to support the practice of limiting the language exposure to only one language in bilingual children with...Bilingual Intervention In Bilingual Children With Language Impairment
Bilingual Intervention In Bilingual Children With Language Impairment There is limited research on the effects of language of intervention used in bilingual children with ASD and the impact of exposure to a second language. In studies of bilingual children with...Bilingualism
Bilingualism When deciding what language of intervention to use when working with bilingual children with ASD, it is crucial to first understand the factors that affect bilingual language development. A child’s language development and acquisition reflects a...standardized uptake values (SUV)
standardized uptake values (SUV) Positron emission tomography (PET) has become a widely utilized functional imaging modality. The combination of x-ray computed tomography (CT) with PET gives both structural and functional information from a single two part scan as...
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