Integrated service managers

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Based upon how these healthcare delivery and financial management strategies are designed and implemented, MCOs are classified into different types or models - HMOs, PPOs, point-of-service (POS) plans and integrated service networks. In addition, pharmacy benefit management organizations provide specialized services to managed care. 

Another subproject developed the service management layer [438], which provides a communication platform for tool integration. 

The solution presented here is based on CORBA [877], a wide-spread and mature middleware platform. CORBA provides direct support for a multitude of service management aspects in distributed systems [262]. Furthermore, there are many stable implementations. Thus, a first step was the selection of an appropriate CORBA implementation, based on an evaluation of the runtime characteristics (see Subsect. 4.2.3). For an a-posteriori integration of non-CORBA-based tools (e.g. those which were designed for Microsoft Windows) with the CORBA infrastructure, Microsoft s COM/DCOM [847] interface is used and wrappers were developed to integrated those technologies (see Subsect. 4.2.4). 

At the same time, by introducing a service management platform which separates tools, documents, etc. from physical resources, management of efficient and fault-tolerant execution of development tools can be integrated transparently [422]. The service platform includes various functionality to do so. A basic functionality is the integration of a service trader which can find... 

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CRS (Congressional Research Service). 2004. Risk Management and Critical Infrastructure Assessing, Integrating, and Managing Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Consequences. RL32561. Washington, D.C. 

The horizontal services include (but are not limited to) demographic registries, services for dynamic construction of lifetime personal health record, electronic health record management services, global person identification services, clinical and financial data integration services, information management services, electronic collaboration services, clinical decision services, and interdisciplinary coordination services. 

Most service-management concepts discussed so far clearly show an affiliation to either the production line view or the human resource or customer and marketing-oriented view on services. These different views have not been integrated much, mainly because very different scientific disciplines are involved. Obviously, both approaches are needed. Nowadays service processes are highly complex and call for the application of sophisticated methods from industrial engineering, while on the other hand the outcome depends heavily on the performance of employees and customers. 

Technology integration and management examines the organization s commitment to identification and evaluation of emerging technology related to new products and services, primary... 

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