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Varying the types of skills you work on in practice sessions engages a different part of the brain than the one you use when focusing on a single task, researchers say. The finding explains why variable practice improves the brain's memory of most skills better than working on just one type of task, according to the research team from the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles.In their study, published online recently in Nature Neuroscience, the investigators divided 59 volunteers into different groups. Some were asked to practice a challenging arm movement, while others did the arm movement and related tasks in a variable practice structure.The participants in the variable practice group learned the arm movement better than those who practiced only the arm movement, the study authors found.Among those in the variable practice group, the process of consolidating memory of the skill engaged a part of the brain called the prefrontal cortex, which is associated with higher level planning. Among those who practiced only the arm movement, the engaged part of the brain was the primary motor cortex, which is associated with simple motor learning, the authors explained."In the variable practice structure condition, you're basically solving the motor problem anew each time. If I'm just repeating the same thing over and over again as in the constant practice condition, I don't have to process it very deeply," study senior author Carolee Winstein, a professor of biokinesiology and physical therapy at the University of Southern California, said in a university news release.

Primary care practices typically measure productivity according to the number of visits, which also drives payment.

Several studies have estimated the amount of time that primary care physicians devote to nonvisit work.1,2 To provide a more detailed description, my colleagues and I used our electronic health record to count units of primary care work during the course of a year.

Greenhouse Internists is a community-based internal medicine practice employing five physicians in Philadelphia. In 2008, we had an active caseload of 8440 patients between 15 and 99 years of age.

The Prediction API enables access to Google's machine learning algorithms to analyze your historic data and predict likely future outcomes. Upload your data to Google Storage for Developers, then use the Prediction API to make real-time decisions in your applications

Steven Potash is President and CEO of OverDrive, Inc., a digital media company he founded in 1986. Under his leadership, OverDrive has become a leading digital media distributor and Digital Rights Management (DRM) clearinghouse for hundreds of leading publishers, studios, and media producers in the US and abroad. OverDrive distributes over 100,000 premium eBook, audiobook, music, and video titles to a network of over 6,000 libraries and online retail websites.

Mr. Potash has led OverDrive into strategic relationships with Microsoft Corporation, Adobe Systems, Inc., and hundreds of leading media companies and retailers. During the 90's, OverDrive began offering print-to-digital conversion services to publishers, and eCommerce solutions for retailers in the trade, academic, and consumer markets. Since 2000, Mr. Potash launched Content Reserve, which has grown to become the world's leading distribution network for eBooks and digital media with over 100,000 products from 500 publishers. During 2002 OverDrive expanded its digital content services to public, academic, and corporate libraries with the launch of Digital Library Reserve. Mr. Potash has served as President and as a Board member for the International Digital Publishing Forum (www.idpf.org), an international standards body and trade association for digital book applications.

Prior to OverDrive, Mr. Potash was active in the practice of law, served as Special Counsel to the Ohio Attorney General, served as an acting Municipal Judge, and authored technology columns for the American Bar Association Journal. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, he earned a B.A. in Journalism from Ohio State and his J.D. from the Cleveland Marshall College of Law. He is currently licensed to practice law in Ohio and federal courts. He lives in Cleveland with his wife Loree.

This ethnographic study investigates how a project group deals with the contradiction between distributed knowledge in boundary-spanning collaborative processes and the expectation that software systems will provide unified, codified knowledge. Group and individual activities were observed over a period of 18 months, to examine the ways knowledge was presented, recognized, shared, or otherwise managed during joint design of business process and IT systems change. The study explores how knowledge and expertise were translated across organizational boundaries, and identifies four stages in the development of group understanding of how to manage sensemaking and expertise across knowledge boundaries: focus on defining shared goals; acknowledging and sharing tacit knowledge about organizational practice; identifying external influences; and explicit knowledge generation.

New Technology Evaluation and Implementation Hospitals and healthcare systems are under greater pressure than ever to improve patient care, increase staff satisfaction, control or reduce costs, and meet insurance and government regulations and live up to industry watchdog best practices. To help meet these demands, providers must continue to implement new technology as part of the solutions or risk obsolescence.

Welcome to MedHomeInfo, the resource for physicians and practices that want to participate in the Medicare Medical Home Demonstration (MMHD)

Only 12 percent of federal CISOs worry about poorly trained users. According to an April 2010 study by the Ponemon Institute, 40 percent of all data breaches in the United States are the result of negligence, however a comparable statistic for the federal space is unavailable.

The Computer Security Act of 1987 requires federal agencies to "provide for the mandatory periodic training in computer security awareness and accepted computer security practices of all persons who are involved with the management, use, or operation of each Federal computer system within or under the supervision of that agency." At the NIST event, Hord Tipton, executive director of (ISC)², estimated that most federal employees only get an hour of training per year, under FISMA requirements.

We estimate that by 2012, about 80 percent of the projected eight billion core US health care transactions will be in electronic formats,

The complexity of clinical data should not be underestimated—a typical patient-level clinical data set can include more than 800 discrete fields, compared with only about 20 to 30 for a financial transaction.

Resulting in part from this systemwide complexity, industry administrative costs will grow by about 10 percent annually over the coming years

The Microsoft Connected Health FrameworkArchitecture and Design BlueprintThe Connected Health Framework - Architecture and Design Blueprint represents a vendor-agnostic set of best practices and approach based on Services Oriented Architecture (SOA), for architecting e-Health solutions for health information networks ranging from within health organizations to across multiple government agencies.

Microsoft Dynamics is largely present in just about every software market but medical. And they’re missing out big time. The United States healthcare IT market is growing at about 13% per year and is expected to reach $35 billion in 20111. The biggest opportunity for growth in the industry is among ambulatory care physician practices, partly due to the Stimulus Bill requiring the use of electronic health records (EHR) systems by 2015.

Lewis & Hand, LLP lawyers represent authors, publishers and distributors and advise clients on all aspects of traditional, electronic and digital publishing. We review, draft, and negotiate all types of publishing related agreements, including: Author Agreements Option and Purchase Agreements Publishing Agreements Agent Agreements

The Entertainment, Media and Technology Industry Team at Sheppard Mullin is a full-service multi-disciplinary group representing the major motion picture studios, television networks and other domestic and international entertainment, media and communications companies in all areas, including: motion picture and television development finance, production and distribution advertising/sweepstakes branded entertainment games intellectual property licensing and merchandising mergers, corporate finance, acquisitions and other strategic corporate transactions music First Amendment convergence, online/technology publishing sports