While they are a step toward a pay-for-performance system, they have not entirely shed the yoke of the fee-for-service model that is currently employed by government-funded health programs.
Vidyo also recently announced a solution that allows service providers to virtualize its VidyoRouter architecture, enabling massive deployment through a Video-as-a-Service model.
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Other applications are rented via a software-as-a-service model.
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The programs, an addition to the company's "Lotus" group of applications, also represent one of IBM's most ambitious forays yet into enterprise software-as-a-service, the browser-based model of applications pioneered by companies like Salesforce.com.
But as the platform-as-a-service delivery model grows, it will intensify the competition between large cloud service providers and enterprise software suppliers, which look to capture the growing, market, Gartner predicted.
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The combined forces of the Software-as-a-Service deployment model, the role of Salesforce.com as the master data aggregator and integration point, buying habits of marketing departments and cooperative efforts among vendors have created a situation in which IT plays almost no role in supporting the use of marketing technologies.
To bolster his contrarian argument, he points out that an officially appointed committee of experts has just recommended that his state scrap the fee-for-service model of reimbursement, which many economists believe is at the heart of America's health-inflation problem.
Medicare has many other flaws such as its encouragement of open-ended, fee-for-service benefits a model that nearly all employer health plans abandoned more than a decade ago.
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Using the "as-a-service" model, Sprint will deliver new applications to round out its portfolio and enable customers to take advantage of the benefits of cloud-based services.
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They recently announced that Premier and IBM had co-developed an integrated payer-provider model called Premier Connect, a cloud-based service that provides information based on electronic health records of Premier members and is refreshed every 30 days.
They persist in a romantic vision of a public realm based on a co-operative model in which the public-service ethos is allowed to shine through unchallenged.
As they note, there is really only one critical difference between the current, expensive model that excludes the majority of people who need this service and the for-profit model: a legal framework.
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Dean is merely closing the circle and banking that his full-service model will push individual acts to draw the attention of musical venture capitalists as backers, shifting the risk of signing an up-and-coming act from the record label to outside investors.
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Unlike some Web-based phenoms, the location check-in service Foursquare has an obvious potential business model: local ads based on your geographic location, perhaps coupled with inferred interests from your previous check-ins.
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The National Weather Service updated its storm-surge model to take into account larger and slower-moving storms and include better elevation and high tide data last year.
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Its high-touch service model, though impressive, is not impossible to replicate (British bank customers will get something similar with the opening next month of Metro Bank, one of whose founders was the force behind Commerce Bank).
The existing benchmarking service is free, but Mr. Marmer plans to introduce a premium model and is looking into a lead-generation service, both of which would charge users.
Web services are currently most visible in the business model of so-called application service providers.
Does the deal mark the end to the full-service independent investment banking model?
Earlier, Mr Grayling was questioned about his plans to overhaul the probation service with a payment-by-results model of provision involving private firms and voluntary groups.
According to Courthouse News Service, Noa is a Cuban-born model.
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Company officials believe that by raising the expectations of Chinese customers, Caterpillar can steer China's equipment industry toward a new business model that favors Caterpillar's service-oriented approach.
Vertex labs are packed with workstations that tap 112 Pentium chips in parallel, capable of crunching 110 gigaflops per second, roughly the same computing power used to produce the National Weather Service's two-week global climate model.
Some fancy the RBI is a model for the kind of full-service central bank that is back in fashion worldwide both the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England, among others, are now in charge of financial stability as well as interest rates.
Unlike the per-search model, the new service is gaining traction.
American Express says it is uniquely positioned to offer the service thanks to its "closed-loop" business model in which it acts as card issuer, merchant acquirer and payment processing operator.
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Its own model for DoCoMo's i-mode Internet service looks unlike anything it sells in Europe.
An important part of Dell's success has been that along with its direct-sales model it offers a customisation service.
Netflix introduced its standalone video streaming service in the U.S. in 2011, marking a significant shift from its earlier business model of offering streaming as an add-on service to DVDs.
While it does sell travel services under the traditional price-disclosed model, the Name Your Own Price service allows customers (that are flexible on the date and time of travel and the choice of supplier) the option to bid for hotel stays and air tickets.
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