The general aim of this study is to attempt to understand the functioning of the professional structure within a teaching hospital, as well as its relationship to the administrative system. More specifically, this study first presents the inter-relationships and the various coordinating mechanisms used by health professionals while exercising their duties with patients. It then goes on to describe the functioning of the administrative system in order to identify its links with the operational core. / L'objectif général de cette étude est de chercher à comprendre le fonctionnement de la structure professionnelle clinique d'un hospital de soins ultraspécialisés de même que ses relations avec le système administratif. De manière plus spécifique, cette recherche met d'abord en évidence les interrelations et les divers mécanismes de coordination utilisés par les différents professionnels de la santé dans l'exécution de leurs tâches auprès des patients pour ensuite présenter le fonctionnement du système administratif de manière à identifier ses liens avec le centre opérationnel.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xii, 108 p.; also includes graphics (some col.). Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: René M. Stultz, Dept.of Business Administration. Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-70).

A business application automates a collection of business processes. A business process describes how a set of logically related tasks are executed, ordered and managed by following business rules to achieve business objectives. An “online book purchase” business process contains several tasks such as buying a book, ordering a book, and sending out promotions. In this ever changing business environment, both of business applications and business processes are modified to accommodate changed business requirements and improve the performance of the organization. These continuous modifications introduce problems in the following two aspects: 1) Business process definitions are rarely updated to reflect the current business processes deployed in business applications. 2) Business processes may be cloned (e.g., copied and slightly modified) to handle special circumstances or promotions. Identifying these clones and removing them help improve the efficiency of an organization. However, business processes are defined with textual languages that cannot be automatically understood. To maintain business process definitions up to date, we present our techniques that automatically recover business processes from UIs of business applications and identify clones in the recovered business processes. We leverage UI design patterns, which present the best practices of UI designs, to capture business processes from UIs. To refine the recovered business processes and mark the functionally equivalent tasks, we use existing code clone detection tools, such as CCFinder and CloneDR, to detect clones in business applications, and lift clones from code level to business process level. The effectiveness of our techniques is demonstrated through a case study on 15 large open source business applications. / Thesis (Master, Computing) -- Queen's University, 2008-10-28 11:06:31.41

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed by Congress in 2010 as a health policy initiative to improve the effectiveness of the United States healthcare system. Policies and regulations under the ACA include provisions to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of medical services which has resulted in a transition of payment systems from fee-for-service (FFS) reimbursement models to value-based reimbursement (VBR) models. Policies under the ACA also encouraged the formation of affordable care organizations (ACOs) which endorse new models of healthcare delivery, specifically team-based care models, to increase the efficiency, quality and accessibility of medical care while at the same time controlling costs. Although physician assistants (PAs) have been a proposed method for addressing the growing demand for high quality, cost-effective healthcare, research that explores the economic value and financial impact of physician assistants is limited. Currently, productivity metrics are used to determine the economic value of physicians and PAs. Current methods of measuring productivity include volume-based metrics and claim based data. Although these methods may be sufficient for measuring physician productivity, they fail to account for PA practices. Current productivity metrics also fail to account for a vast majority of PA productivity due to current billing policies that do not capture all services provided by PAs. In this study, we will explore the financial impact associated with the addition of PAs to ten different physician-owned family medicine practices by measuring the percent increase in net annual practice revenue one year after the employment of a PA. Net practice revenue is defined as the total revenue generated per provider per year minus overhead costs associated with provider employment.

Efter en omfattande SAP implementering finns det oftast ännu mer datamaterial i en organisation. Moderna ERP-system som SAP skapar å ena sidan en stor transparens, men å andra sidan förändras processerna och det är viktigt för en organisation att kunna analysera affärsinformation snabbt och enkelt och att kunna reagera på förändringar på marknaden. Detta arbete ska ge en överblick över olika verktyg för ett BI-system i samband med analysen av omsättningen och faktureringsprocessen vid ett aluminiumvalsverk. Processerna har förändrats vid aluminiumvalsverket p g a SAP implementeringen och det är en akut och viktig fråga att bygga upp ett informationssystem som baserar sig på SAP information. Därför valde Man att implementera BI-verktyget Cubeware samt att programmera några SAP Query för att kontrollera faktureringsprocessen. Men första steget vid starten av denna informationsprocess av BI-verktyg var ett Excel-program som på ett enkelt sätt kan analysera data som kommer från faktureringsprocessen. Det visade sig dock snabbt att det fanns problem i denna informationsprocess. Å ena sidan fanns det felaktig information inom SAP systemet, därför utvecklades SAP Query; och å andra sidan har Excel-filen blivit allt för stor och nästan oanvändbar för att kunna göra snabba analyser. Därför implementerades Cubeware i samband med databasen MS SQL Server 2005. I mitt arbete ska jag beskriva denna utvecklingsprocess för informationshanteringen och samtidigt analysera olika felorsaker och beskriva informationskvalitetsutvecklingen.

<p>Efter en omfattande SAP implementering finns det oftast ännu mer datamaterial i en</p><p>organisation. Moderna ERP-system som SAP skapar å ena sidan en stor transparens, men å</p><p>andra sidan förändras processerna och det är viktigt för en organisation att kunna analysera</p><p>affärsinformation snabbt och enkelt och att kunna reagera på förändringar på marknaden.</p><p>Detta arbete ska ge en överblick över olika verktyg för ett BI-system i samband med</p><p>analysen av omsättningen och faktureringsprocessen vid ett aluminiumvalsverk.</p><p>Processerna har förändrats vid aluminiumvalsverket p g a SAP implementeringen och det</p><p>är en akut och viktig fråga att bygga upp ett informationssystem som baserar sig på SAP</p><p>information. Därför valde Man att implementera BI-verktyget Cubeware samt att</p><p>programmera några SAP Query för att kontrollera faktureringsprocessen. Men första steget</p><p>vid starten av denna informationsprocess av BI-verktyg var ett Excel-program som på ett</p><p>enkelt sätt kan analysera data som kommer från faktureringsprocessen. Det visade sig dock</p><p>snabbt att det fanns problem i denna informationsprocess. Å ena sidan fanns det felaktig</p><p>information inom SAP systemet, därför utvecklades SAP Query; och å andra sidan har</p><p>Excel-filen blivit allt för stor och nästan oanvändbar för att kunna göra snabba analyser.</p><p>Därför implementerades Cubeware i samband med databasen MS SQL Server 2005.</p><p>I mitt arbete ska jag beskriva denna utvecklingsprocess för informationshanteringen och</p><p>samtidigt analysera olika felorsaker och beskriva informationskvalitetsutvecklingen.</p>

Gender equality and women empowerment are two of the most up-to-date concerns on the international arena today. Several methods are being adopted with the aim to allow women’s equal social, economic and political participation. Entrepreneurship has been highlighted as a useful tool to foster women’s empowerment and hence the promotion of entrepreneurship has become a prominent approach in modern development efforts.   In Uganda, women constitute the majority of the informal labour force and are widely engaged in micro-business activities. Thus, this ethnographically inspired research aimed to assess if entrepreneurship can contribute to increased social power among female entrepreneurs in urban and suburban Kampala, Uganda. To do this, John Friedmann’s (Dis)empowerment model has been used as the main frame of interpretation. To fit into the context of women, it has been complemented with a gender analysis in order to identify the structural inequalities that may constrain the empowering impact of entrepreneurship.   This research was carried out as a field study in Kampala City and in three Kampala suburbs: Kyaliwajjala, Kireka and Kinawataka. It was financed by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and was conducted during nine weeks in September-November 2014. In total, 45 interviews were carried out with local business women as well as with local representatives and stakeholders in women entrepreneurship and women empowerment.   The conclusions drawn from this study is that entrepreneurship has contributed to increased social power among the women participating in this research, but that traditional gender norms and structures can constrain the empowering process. Greater economic responsibilities have not eased women’s obligations in the domestic sphere and thus created a double burden.

The purpose of this study was to (1) collect and examine data from graduates relating to the present status and effectiveness of the program and (2) compare the requirements of the program to the requirements of other institutions in Texas with NCATE accreditation. Two questionnaires were developed to obtain data from the graduates concerning four categories of information: personal information, occupational information, analysis of the effectiveness of the curriculum, and evaluation of the adequacy of the program. The colleges and universities in Texas with NCATE accreditation were sources of the following types of information: area offering and having responsibility for the business education program, AACSB and its effect on the business education program, certification options available, methods courses offered, and grade requirements for admission into and for graduation and certification from the program.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the perceptions of managers in Kuwait (both Kuwaiti and non- Kuwaiti) on the effects of multinational corporations (MNCs) in Kuwait and whether these effects were beneficial. The problem motivating this study is the effects that MNCs have on the social, cultural, political, legal, economic, business, and technological environments of their host countries, especially in developing nations. This study is based on a survey of the perceptions of 1,344 managers in Kuwait on the role of MNCs in changes in Kuwait. A review of the literature on MNCs and their relationships with their host countries is provided. This review focuses on four major environmental dimensions (Social-Cultural, Political-Legal, Business-Economic, and Technological) that are affected by MNCs. The factor analysis performed for this study supports this classification of the dimensions in the environment. An English questionnaire was developed from the list of major items in each of these dimensions. An Arabic version was developed using a "double-translation method." Both the English and Arabic versions of the questionnaire were pilot tested. The instrument proved to be reliable and valid. The study utilizes a 2 x 3 block design, categorizing subjects by nationality (Kuwaiti, other Arab, others) and type of organization (public and private). Since most of the variables in the study were measured using nominal and ordinal scales, mostly non-parametric statistics were used for data analysis. The major finding from this study was that managers in Kuwait perceive positive effects of MNCs on change in Kuwait, with the exception of the cultural environment. The favorable perceptions were about the MNCs1 effects on the change in business, economic, and technological environments in Kuwait. The results of the study should be beneficial to the Kuwaiti government, MNCs doing business in Kuwait, and also to cross-cultural researchers interested in the Middle East.