Tag Archives: quality
Managed Medicare Advantage Plans Demonstrate Better Outcomes for Patients / By Analyzing Insurance Claims From 3 Million U.S. Medicare Patients, The Boston Consulting Group Finds That Managed Private Plans Outperform Traditional Fee-for-Service…
BOSTON, MA — (Marketwired) — 05/14/13 — As health systems around the world experiment with alternative models for care delivery and reimbursement to improve health care quality and lower cost, t… Continue reading
Snow’s melting: Time to find budget hiking boots
April showers and spring snowmelt signal that it’s time to trade in ski boots and snowshoes for hiking boots. Of course, those harbingers of warm weather also turn hiking trails to muck Continue reading
Goldman fails to dismiss Prudential mortgage fraud lawsuit
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs Group Inc must face a lawsuit in which Prudential Financial Inc accused the Wall Street bank of defrauding it into buying more than $375 million of residential mortgage-backed securities it knew were unsafe. U.S. Continue reading
Summer Warning: Beach Water Quality Worsens
As Britons dream of summer warmth, a warning is delivered that water quality has deteriorated at many of our seaside spots. Continue reading
Oh, snap! Best budget digital cameras
The best budget models promise reliable image quality and include features such as 10x optical zoom. Continue reading
Australian Coal Seam Gas Projects Face Government Scrutiny
Australian coal seam gas projects or large coal mines that could lower the quality of water resources will now be assessed by federal lawmakers under new laws proposed Tuesday. Continue reading
In China, public anger over secrecy on environment
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – When China's environment ministry told attorney Dong Zhengwei he couldn't have access to two-year old data about soil pollution because it was a “state secret”, it added to mounting public outrage over the worsening environment. Microbloggers, state media and even delegates to this week's session of the National People's Congress, the largely rubber-stamp parliament, were already critical of the government for poor air and water quality. Continue reading
Hey Marissa! Working from home is alive and well
When Yahoo relayed to its employees on Friday that they could no longer work remotely, one of the reasons given was that “speed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from home. Many workplace experts disagree. Continue reading
France’s Hollande hails quality meat at farm show
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande sang the praises of local produce at the annual French farm show, where the horse meat scandal added to French cattle breeders' downbeat mood. Hollande, who was long the head of the rural Correze region, spent hours talking to livestock farmers, who worry that the discovery of horse meat in lasagnas and other processed foods labeled as beef-based will cast another cloud over their sector. “We need to promote French quality, French production and French cattle breeding,” Hollande told reporters at Europe's largest farm show Continue reading
In the U.S. government’s eyes, S&P’s ratings stopped making sense
REUTERS – Barely two weeks after the big subprime lender New Century Financial Corp went bankrupt, a top Standard & Poor's executive assured Congress that her employer could be counted on to sound the alarm for the next credit disaster. S&P ratings are “grounded in the cornerstone principles of independence, transparency, credibility and quality,” resulting in a “long-standing track record of analytical excellence and objective commentary,” Susan Barnes, managing director in charge of U.S. Continue reading →