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Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy: clinical application and Medicare physician payment (open access)

Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy: clinical application and Medicare physician payment

This report discusses the new methods of paying physicians; fee schedules, payment for an episode-of-illness, and capitation payments.
Date: August 1985
Creator: Showstack, Jonathan A.; Sawitz, Eric & Perex-Stable, Eliseo J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mapping our genes: federal genome projects: How vast? How fast?: transcript of workshop, "Costs of Human Genome Projects" (open access)

Mapping our genes: federal genome projects: How vast? How fast?: transcript of workshop, "Costs of Human Genome Projects"

This report discusses the research and technology efforts aimed at mapping and sequencing large portions or entire genomes. It includes the implication of technologies, social and ethical issues, applications in research biology and medicine etc.
Date: August 7, 1987
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Financing care for patients with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders (open access)

Financing care for patients with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders

This report discusses the financing for patients with Alzheimer's disease,and policy options.
Date: August 11, 1986
Creator: Davis, Karen & Neuman, Patricia
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Study of international clearing and settlement: Volume VI (open access)

Study of international clearing and settlement: Volume VI

This report is a part of collection of expert papers on clearing and settlement. These paper are a part of Study of International Clearing and Settlement.
Date: August 1, 1989
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Continuing the commitment: agricultural development in the Sahel (open access)

Continuing the commitment: agricultural development in the Sahel

This report discusses the hunger in West Africa and draws on the expertise of a large number of people. In 1985, rain came to the Sahel and provided partial relief from its latest drought.
Date: August 1986
Creator: Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Payments to physicians in the Permanente Medical Group (open access)

Payments to physicians in the Permanente Medical Group

This report describes the function of The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG) to provide medical care to Health Plan members within the Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and their associated medical offices.
Date: August 1985
Creator: Collen, Morris F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Intellectual property and the new computer-based media (open access)

Intellectual property and the new computer-based media

This report discusses the intellectual property rights. The concern is primarily with how modern electronics has changed the locus of creation, publishing, and distribution of such property.
Date: August 1984
Creator: Solomon, Richard J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Industrial Energy Efficiency (open access)

Industrial Energy Efficiency

This report focuses on energy use in industry, and how government policy can affect it. Trends and patterns in industrial energy use are reviewed, energy-efficient industrial equipment and practices are described, and the factors that influence corporate investment in efficient technologies are explored. Lastly, past Federal efforts to improve industrial energy efficiency are reviewed, and policy options for encouraging the further development and adoption of efficient industrial technologies are discussed.
Date: August 1993
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development Assistance, Export Promotion, and Environmental Technology (open access)

Development Assistance, Export Promotion, and Environmental Technology

This background paper provides an overview of developing country environmental problems and markets for environmental technologies and services. It discusses preliminary estimates on the amount and purposes of environmental aid provided by donor countries in 1991. The paper discusses the commercial implications of other countries’ aid for U.S. environmental firms, and the Helsinki package adopted by the OECD in late 1991 to limit commercial advantage from use of tied aid credits.
Date: August 1993
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preparing for an Uncertain Climate: Summary (open access)

Preparing for an Uncertain Climate: Summary

This is the final report on climate change. OTA examines how the Nation can best prepare for an uncertain future climate.
Date: August 1993
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library