Another company called Ankeena Networks wrote software for content delivery networks to do more efficient delivery of rich media like video to mobile networks.

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Accountable Care Organizations (ACO): ACOs will launch in January 2012 and allow physician organizations and health systems to earn a significant share of any savings generated by more efficient healthcare delivery.

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He identifies, especially, the more transparent and efficient delivery of food rations to the poor, thanks to computerisation and the spread of ID cards.

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The new generation of vaccines is born of biotechnology, which offers new vaccine designs, more efficient combinations and better ways of delivery than a shot in the arm.

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"When you're streaming video to PCs from a single source, the users aren't fully saturating their available bandwidth, " says Adam Berrey, vice president of marketing for Brightcove, which is the first video service to use BitTorrent's DNA. Because BitTorrent pulls the video from many different sources at once, Berrey says, its delivery should be far more efficient than pulling from a single server.

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The delivery of UltraHD TV requires a more efficient compression codec made possible by the use of the new High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard.

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In an era in which healthcare systems are seeking to make the delivery of services more cost-effective and efficient, embracing advancements in technology may be the answer.

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During its recent inquiry into the efficient delivery of public services, the committee discussed the merit of public bodies spending more money on trying to prevent, rather than deal with, negative social outcomes.

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