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Quality Incentive Payment Systems

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, 2005
Public and corporate pressure to improve the quality of healthcare in the United States has never been greater. Rising costs, recent discouraging appraisals of patient safety, accelerating malpractice litigation, and an increasing burden of chronic disease have intensified the demand for a change in current policies. Central to these efforts are payers
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Incentive Mechanisms in Dynamic Active Systems

Automation and Remote Control, 2003
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Novikov, D. A., Shokhina, T. E.
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Incentives for electronic coupon systems

Proceedings of the 1st international workshop on Decentralized resource sharing in mobile computing and networking, 2006
Ad hoc networks and peer-to-peer systems typically require many users to participate, in order to leverage the full benefits of the system. In this paper we examine an electronic coupon system, where providers send out coupons, which are passed from user to user.
Jussi Kangasharju, Andreas Heinemann
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What is an incentive system?

Performance + Instruction, 1989
AbstractPerformance Technologists have come a long way—from producing zebra‐striped books to implementing innovative interventions. It is about time we applied our technology to where the money is: compensation packages and incentive systems. This new series will feature articles on different aspects of developing, implementing, evaluating, and ...
Frances N. Kemmerer, Sivasailam Thiagarajan   +1 more
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Company-Wide Incentive Systems

The Journal of Business, 1955
IN RECENT years considerable attention has been focused on companywide incentive systems as a possible method for achieving increased productivity. At the same time, considerable skepticism has been expressed as to the long-run usefulness of such plans. The opinion has often been advanced that these company-wide systems should be viewed as "second-best"
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Chinese Academic Assessment and Incentive System

Science and Engineering Ethics, 2015
The Chinese academic assessment and incentive system drew mixed responses from academia. In the essay the author tried to explain why the current assessment system is appropriate in China and an opportunistic behavior in Chinese academia is exposed.
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Intelligent system for recycling incentive

2015 10th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2015
Cities are facing an increasing growth in population, resulting in, among other things, increasing quantities of waste being generated. Industrialization and economic growth has produced more amounts of waste, including hazardous and toxic wastes. Thus, every year, millions of tonnes of litter end up in municipal or industrial waste dumps, oceans ...
Pedro Reis, Rui Pitarma, Filipe Caetano, Celestino Goncalves   +3 more
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Incentive Systems in Software Organizations

2009 Fourth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances, 2009
This paper explains how incentive systems are defined in software development organizations and the impacts that they can have on team productivity. It also supplies a set of guidelines which is being applied in an organization for the purposes of helping managers to define and implement a reward program as part of the organizational strategy to ...
Felipe Santana Furtado Soares, Gib Junior, Sílvio Romero de Lemos Meira   +2 more
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Incentives in Healthcare Payment Systems

2019
Health services providers receive payments mostly from private or public insurers rather than patients. Provider incentive problems arise because an insurer misses information about the provider and patients, and has imperfect control over the provider’s treatment, quality, and cost decisions.
Ching-to Albert Ma, Henry Y. Mak
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Underground Incentive Bonus Systems

1983
Although today’s miners may be either hourly paid or salaried employees, most underground mines think of their miners as contractors and remunerate them with a bonus system related to production. Usually, the miner will receive his base wage, irrespective of production output, and a bonus in addition, based on his output, that might be as low as 20% or
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