They provide complex services for the thousands of diseases, conditions, and injuries that afflict us.
Yet in some areas, especially the geographically remote ones, the demand for complex services often outstrips the supply.
Like most of our system, Medicare reimbursement now rewards institutions and clinicians who provide more and more complex services.
Most businesses haven't spruced up billing and accounting to keep pace with the complex services, creating a system riddled with waste--paying bills for inactive lines, ignoring discounts and failing to spot employee fraud and curb excessive dial-up time from workers' homes.
The Belfast Trust is suspending private operations while the Northern Trust has moved complex surgery services.
This morning, the committee is starting a day of evidence taking on the long and complex Social Services Bill, including evidence from the Children's Commissioner.
The trove of data is being collected in anticipation of more-complex location services and features on devices that have yet to be manufactured.
"We face the prospect of NHS services being placed in the middle of a costly bidding war with private companies, discrete services cherry-picked for profit while the NHS is left to run the more complex and expensive services but with less money, " the Labour peer added.
With these hard, if obvious, lessons came great success for small projects, but also a haunting doubt: Could quality (and comprehensive and complex) health services ever be "scaled up" in some of the poorest countries in the world?
In May, the FCC leadership floated the idea of deeming complex and dynamic Internet services equivalent to old-fashioned monopoly phone services, thereby triggering price-and-terms regulations that originated in the 1880s.
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Not only has banking itself developed into a complex range of financial services, from insurance to home loans, that Islamic banks must synthesize, but Sharia also proscribes involvement in transactions involving alcohol, pork and gambling.
In addition, mobile developers are able to leverage the cloud for fast, complex processing of their application services before delivering the presentation layer across multiple form factors and devices to ensure great user experience.
The council said its children's services supported about 900 children with complex needs, and out of those about 350 children and their families used short-break services.
As a result, the connections that consumers have with brands, products, and services have become increasingly complex and dynamic.
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Papers submitted to Tuesday's cabinet meeting said Squirrel Lodge could not provide modern short-break services to children with complex needs.
To achieve this, decision makers need scientifically credible and independent information that takes into account the complex relationships between biodiversity, ecosystem services, and people.
"Incidents do occur in a complex specialty such as paediatric cardiac services where we are caring for some of the sickest children in the region, " she said.
Decision makers need scientifically credible and independent information that takes into account the complex relationships between biodiversity, ecosystem services, and people in order to adopt and implement adequate policies.
Success depends on a complex blend of hardware, software and services.
The financial services industry, long protected by complex regulations, high barriers to entry and economies of scale, is ripe for disruption.
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That may always have been true, but more and more it seems like both higher education and financial services are too expensive, too complex, and otherwise broken.
Either way, factories have to take advantage of new capabilities enabled by the increasingly rapid convergence of mobility, real-time complex data processing and analytics, cloud based services and machine-to-machine intelligence.
Firms, large and small, can call upon all the external services needed to put together a complex financial deal, such as advice from lawyers and accountants, or the use of specialist markets.
Natural gas projects are complex endeavors that require specialized, sophisticated technology and services to compress or liquefy the natural gas.
Anonymization services add another obstacle on the increasingly complex paths of botnets.
Nuance positions its system as an alternative to increasingly complex remote controls used to navigate the content and services available on Internet-connected televisions.
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But providing services turns out to be expensive and complex.
Contractors, consultants, vendors and support services round out the modern government-industrial complex.
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The force said its call handling unit had undergone a complex "change review" to achieve savings and improve services which resulted in a breakdown in performance monitoring.
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