Since the mid-1990s, the state of Georgia has been facing an ongoing crisis brewing within their foster care system. According to a 2018 report conducted by the American Public Welfare Association, Georgia’s number of children placed in foster or substitute care is growing 33 times faster than...
This paper fills that gap by analyzing a broad outcome that is clearly connected to the healthcare system generally: death. Specifically, I analyze a comprehensive dataset of healthcare amenable deaths to estimate the effect of relaxing SOP laws to grant NPs and PAs more autonomy and authority ...
implement and maintain “reasonable” safeguards to protect the security, confidentiality and integrity of private information. Significantly, New York’s Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (N.Y. Gen Bus. Law § 899-bb) identified certain administrative,...
Improved usability:Principles of accessible design improve the overall user experience for all visitors. Accessibility best practices like clear navigation, readable fonts, and responsive design make a website easier to use, which can decrease bounce rates and increase the time users spend o...
If a program is made up of two parts, part A, which must be executed by a single processor, and part B, which can be parallelised, then we see that adding multiple processors to the system executing the program can only have a limited benefit. It can potentially greatly improve the ...
On the one hand, if apology laws do indeed generate more apologies, these laws might reduce liability risk by defusing anger and providing the information that patients often turn to the legal system to uncover. This could reduce the number of claims or improve the likelihood of resolving ...
Purpose:Enacted in 1996,HIPAAis intended to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the healthcare system. As such, it requires the adoption of national standards for electronic health care transactions and code sets, as well as unique health identifiers for providers, health ins...
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if necessary to improve public health and promote the sound nurturing of the young and it is difficult to obtain the consent of the principal; if necessary for governmental bodies to perform their business and getting the consent of the principal will likely impede the proper performance of busine...
While predictive scheduling laws are intended to improve worker well-being and foster a healthier workplace, it is not always easy for employers to implement these new standards. Understanding the ins and outs of these ordinances is essential to avoid penalties and maintain workforce satisfaction and...