The need for there to be transparency of health care price information and quality information elicits copious nodding on the part of health plans, policy wonks and sometimes even politicians.
It is always important to evaluate whether information that you glean is quality information and worth acting upon.
In doing so, our primary aim is to promote and foster healthy military families through the collaborative sharing of information and quality of life resources.
Over the last 20 years or so it has expanded its mission from reducing costs in hospital supply chains to also aggregating hospital data for information on quality, safety and lab data.
Right now, there is "no meaningful information about the quality of care, virtually no information about price, and no sensitivity to price, " but that would change if the insurance industry built "an enduring relationship with consumers, " he says.
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Conversely, to the extent that investors do not presently own shares whose price might be altered by good or bad information, the proper pricing of those shares thanks to the inside investor acting on quality information enables buyers to make better informed decisions about whether or not to buy.
If so, the song should contain information about their quality as a potential mate.
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The sort of price and quality information that could let a patient comparison-shop isn't yet readily available.
Existing Web audio standards such as MP3 and RealAudio also avoid hiss and cut redundant information without hurting quality.
The Scottish government said better quality information was being collected, shared and understood across various agencies in the Highlands.
Unnecessary differences in various costs would be eliminated by a genuine market where people had price and quality information.
The report also said the health service now has better quality information on GPs' prescribing than in the past.
After some initial hiccups, it is well-designed and offers more high quality information that any other site can match.
Some will be very well written and provide quality information, while others will tell you little about the employer's needs.
Moving to the banking industry and its eventual crackup, Allison brings an immense amount of quality information to the discussion.
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The crux is that few banks have been incentivised to voluntarily contribute comprehensive, high-quality information, limiting the scale of such efforts.
So please, before you sign anything, stop, take a deep breath, and turn to sources of high-quality information from reputable divorce professionals.
Until now they have been stymied by a critical lack of information about the quality of the medical care they are buying.
As for the additional quality information the site pledged to provide, Whelan says he had difficulty finding it or even understanding what it meant.
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In too many communities, it is easier to get information on the quality of the local restaurants than on the quality of the local schools.
Nonetheless, it is hoped that sufficient high-quality information will have been gathered in the opening months of the science campaign to construct what geophysicists call a geoid.
For example, information about air quality fluctuations can be monitored to adjust a room's temperature and footstep counters can provide valuable insight into which areas are most popular.
There is remarkably little credible information regarding the quality of services that lawyers provide, and it is exceptionally difficult for even clients of lawyers to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of their lawyers.
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For politicians and commentators to make the similarly politically correct--and vacuous--suggestion that individuals shouldn't profit from quality information is part and parcel with the wrongheaded notion that individuals should be made equal in all walks of life.
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings speaks with Michele Norris about disturbing trends in higher education and changes that need to be made, including giving students and parents better information about the quality of education they can expect from a given institution.
At the same time, users will likely benefit by getting access to quality information that can actually enhance their travels and lifestyle in a way that is not readily available anyplace else, at least not so easily findable and at this level of density.
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In March 2012, Globe International launched an online discussion on the three themes highlighted in the UNESCO concept paper: Media Freedom Has the Power to Transform Societies, Difficulty in the Access to Quality Information Undermines Media Freedom, and Challenges to Media in a New Environment.
Given the discrepancy between Consumer Reports' explanation of the reception problem and the explanation provided by Apple in its July 2 letter to customers, I am concerned that the nearly two million purchasers of the iPhone 4 may not have complete information about the quality of the product they have purchased.
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Samsung's proprietary up-scaling engine can up-convert HD or Full-HD to UHD-level picture quality by restoring detail information to create greater precision and real-life picture quality.
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In addition, Samsung's proprietary up-scaling engine up-converts HD or Full-HD to UHD-level picture quality by restoring detail information to create greater precision and real-life picture quality.
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