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Seabrooke, Leonard; Hobson, John (, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Our everyday actions have important consequences for the constitution and transformation of the local, national, regional and global contexts. How, what, and with whom we spend, save, invest, buy and produce in our ordinary lives shapes markets and how states choose to intervene in them. The political, economic, and social networks with which we associate ourselves provide us not only with meaning about how we think economic policy is made, but also constitute vehicles for how economic policy, both at home and abroad, should be made. And while elite actors in politics and economics obviously have more direct influence, this should not obscure the point that peripheral actors can challenge the legitimacy of how power is exercised. Nor should it obscure the point that such actors have a good deal more agency in terms of determining their own life experiences as well as those of others through their everyday actions than is commonly recognised. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7912
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Social housing in European peripheriesMakszin, Kristin; Bohle, Dorothee; Seabrooke, Leonard (Frederiksberg, 2018)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The global financial crisis has ushered in a major housing crisis in many European countries: severe shortage of affordable housing, high rates of housing deprivation especially in Europe's East, overindebted homeowners, massive evictions in some Southern European countries, and increase in homelessness are the symptoms of the re-emergence of the "housing question" (Engels 1872). To a large extent, the current housing crisis reveals the failure of past policies, which saw the solution to affordable housing in privatization of housing, securitization of mortgages and "financial inclusion" of poorer people via the relaxation of borrowing standards, and subsidization of "subprime" lending. Given the extent of the housing crisis, there is scantly a clearer time to expect social housing to be high on the political agenda. However, in many cases the housing policy response to the crisis in Europe tended to reflect pre-crisis policy ideas and recipes, rather than shifts towards an increased emphasis on social housing. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9629
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Policy Change in the Bank for International SettlementsSeabrooke, Leonard (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is the premiere international institution for the regulation of the world's financial system. Originally established to handle German reparations payments, the BIS's contemporary role is to provide global standards for prudential bank regulation and to facilitate information sharing among a range of state and non-state actors. While privately incorporated and underwritten by its member central banks, the BIS is fundamentally a service provider with quasi-non-governmental organization, 'quango', status. This paper traces the evolution of this unique international quango, stressing the development of the Basle Accords of 1988 and 2004, and how the BIS uses informal and formal networks of elite policymakers to create a normative consensus that compensates for its lack of formal enforcement mechanisms. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7370
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Three Fevers and Two Tonics from Historical SociologySeabrooke, Leonard (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Much of the literature in political economy seeks to capture an essential insight into the evolution of political and economic systems to provide a foundation for policy advice. This article suggests that attempts to nut out the kernels of change often restrict rather than expand policy imagination. Three "fevers" are identified as involved in the narrowing of policy imagination and two "tonics" are offered to widen it. The three fevers are: 1. viewing the present as natural; 2. seeing history as overtly path dependent; and 3. viewing history as driven by "Great Men". These fevers limit our capacity to see political, social, and economic changes that do not conform to conventional theories, as well as distorting our understanding of how the contemporary world works. What policymakers want, more than prediction or recitation of conventional theories, is context to understand how policy can be implemented. Historical sociology provides a way to generate information about contextual constellations through two "tonics": intentional rationality and social mechanisms. With the assistance of these tonics, historical sociology widens political economy's policy imagination. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7327
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Seabrooke, Leonard; Tsingou, Eleni; Willers, Johann Ole (Frederiksberg, 2018)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper examines who populates the expert and policy network around demographic change issues in Europe. We examine how competing policy departments in the European Commission Directorates- General (DGs) deal with the issue of Europe's changing demography, as well as discuss the role of external experts on demographic change. Our findings suggest that on demographic change issues at the EU level, DG EMPL has taken the lead, while DG ECFIN is the secondary actor. Still, internal European Commission dynamics mean that the lead actor on demographic issues has less autonomy in articulating a funded and clear policy position on how to address them. As a consequence, there is little institutional memory and hardly a depository of activity on demographic change. While outside expertise comes primarily from demographers, and other scholars concerned with demographic change, they are primarily an academic community rather than heavily engaged in European policy formulation. As a consequence of these dynamics, the European mode of governance on demographic change issues suffers from a lack of both flexibility and direction. It is an important slow-burning issue that is captured by neither the 'new intergovernmentalism' nor the 'new supranationalism' in post-crisis European governance strategies. Rather, demographic change issues largely operate in a vacuum and make only sporadic appearances on the EU agenda. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9628
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The International Monetary Fund and Policy Reform Surveillance in Small Open EconomiesSeabrooke, Leonard; Broome, André (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The International Monetary Fund spends most of its time monitoring its member states' economic performance and advising on institutional change. While much of the literature sees the Fund as a policy enforcer in "emerging market" and "frontier" economies, little attention has been paid to exploring the Fund's bilateral surveillance of its Western member states. This article proposes that "seeing like the IMF" provides a dynamic view of how the Fund frames its advice for institutional change. It does so through "associational templates" that do not blindly promote institutional convergence, but appeal for change on the basis of like-characteristics among economies. Many Western states, particularly small open economies, consider the Fund's advice as important not only for technical know-how, but because Fund assessments are significant to international and domestic political audiences. This article traces the Fund's advice on taxation and monetary reform to two coordinated market economies, Denmark and Sweden, and two liberal market economies, Australia and New Zealand from 1975 to 2004. It maps how the Fund advocated "policy revolutions" and "policy recombinations" during this period, advice that coincided with important institutional changes within these small open economies. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7323
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Folke Henriksen, Lasse; Seabrooke, Leonard (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Professionals and organizations both seek to exploit and cooperate with each other. Professionals seek alliances in their own peer networks while organizations do the same. These networks carry not only information that inform incentives but norms about appropriate forms of governance and practices that guide how they actually work. In this paper we outline how professionals and organizations operate in two-level networks through a focus on issue control over issues of transnational governance. As such, this interdisciplinary paper brings together insights from Organization Studies and International Relations to discuss how professionals and organizations battle over issue control through the designation of tasks and the creation of overlapping networks. We outline the emergence of 'issue professionals' and how they attempt network management. We do so via a case on transnational sustainability certification that demonstrates how issue professionals are engaged in two-level networks. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8832
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Seabrooke, Leonard (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Who drives domestic institutional change in the face of international economic crisis? For rationalists the answer is powerful self-interested actors who struggle for material gains during an exogenously generated crisis. For economic constructivists it is ideational entrepreneurs who use ideas as weapons to establish paths for institutional change during crisis-driven uncertainty. Both approaches are elite-centric and conceive legitimacy as established by command or proclamation. This article establishes why domestic institutional change in response to international economic constraints must be legitimated by non-elites and how their everyday actions alter policy paths established in crisis. This is illustrated by re-examining a case frequently associated with punctuated equilibrium theories of crisis and institutional change: interwar Britain. In contrast to conventional explanations, I argue that the "legitimacy gap" between elite and broader public understandings about how the economy should work informed institutional experimentation during the 1920s and 1930s and fertilized the "Keynesian Revolution" of the 1940s. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7381
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Mediating Private Capital with Public Values: The Everyday Politics of Mortgage Bond Systems in Denmark and the U.S.Seabrooke, Leonard (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Quasi-public institutions are significant but unsung players in the contemporary international financial order. What can be understood as quasi-public institutions (QPIs) have been created by states or private associations to provide a means of mediating private capital with public value, typically attracting domestic and international investment in order to foster and further a domestic agenda that has strong support from the broader population. As such they fit awkwardly with common perceptions of the international political economy as dominated institutions that reflect either state or market interests. QPIs do both and have emerged as institutional responses to domestic crises that then go on to have a role in shaping the world economy. QPIs that issue collaterized securities from mortgage credit, be they public or private in origin, reflect this institutional form given that their purpose is to bring together private capital and public value. This purpose also makes QPIs sensitive to everyday politics, given that they were created to reflect a broad social purpose rather than only elite interests. This article discusses the development of QPIs for mortgage bonds in a liberal market economy, the U.S., and a coordinated market economy, Denmark. I suggest that QPIs' values have been challenged by de-regulatory and re-regulatory trends in recent decades. I suggest that QPIs call upon us to question how we identify actors in the international financial order as either public or private, and the importance of everyday politics in fostering institutional innovations that have significant knock-on effects for the world economy. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7333
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Seabrooke, Leonard; Tsingou, Eleni (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Aging populations across advanced industrialized countries are expected to have a great impact on a range of socio-economic policies, ranging from welfare and pensions provision to industrial, labor market and financial policies. While populations are aging there has also been a drop in birth rates. Demographic change is acknowledged as a policy concern within many advanced industrialized countries, but discussions about low fertility are not explicitly expressed in terms of policy objectives. Governments, sensitive to the authoritarian implications of prescriptive natalist policies, focus instead on programs that aim to enable choice about childbearing; in concrete terms this means measures such as one-off payments, improving childcare availability, and addressing worklife balance concerns.1 As an issue, low fertility is seen as a particular problem for a number of European and East Asian advanced industrialized countries. Germany and Japan stand out in having experienced especially low fertility over a sustained period of time, while countries with an established and generous welfare state or long traditions of migration appear to buck these trends among members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8755
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Seabrooke, Leonard (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Since the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 the International Monetary Fund (the Fund) has been embroiled in an international crisis of legitimacy. Assertions of a crisis are premised on the notions that the Fund's voting system is unfair, and that the Fund enforces homogenous policies onto borrowing member states and that loan programs tend to fail. Seen this way, poor institutional and policy design has led to a loss of legitimacy. But institutionalised inequalities or policy failure is not in itself sufficient to constitute an international crisis of legitimacy. This article provides a conceptually-driven discussion of the sources of the Fund's international crisis of legitimacy by investigating how its formal "foreground" institutional relations with its member states have become strained, and how informal "background" political and economic relationships are expanding in a way that the Fund will find difficult to re-legitimate. The difference between the Fund's claims to legitimacy and how its member states, especially borrowers, act has led to the creation of a "legitimacy gap" that is difficult to close. However, identifying the sources of the Fund's international crisis of legitimacy allows us to explore what avenues are available to resolve the crisis. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7321
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Standards of Civilization in the Development of International Financial OrdersSeabrooke, Leonard (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The use of a 'standard of civilization', a preferred form of socio-political organization, in global capital markets presents both constraints and opportunities for creditors and borrowers. When imposed, civilizing standards may change how a borrower would prefer to conduct their affairs. Creditors, after all, do not have the time and money to check every little detail and want clear performance benchmarks in economic life. At the same time, borrowers may present themselves as conforming to a civilizing standard to access capital and give themselves a greater capacity to conduct their own affairs. As long as they stay within the parameters of legitimate financial practice to signal institutional isomorphism, the 'groove', creditors may well allow borrowers room for change in self-determined ways. This paper maps out the historical and conceptual terrain concerning civilizing ideas about the legitimacy of financial practices within global capital markets, and investigates relationships between Western 'civilizers' and Emerging Market Economies during the last two periods of financial globalization, the late-nineteenth/ early-twentieth centuries and the late-twentieth century. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7322
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A Survey of the FieldSeabrooke, Leonard (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7324
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Authenticating the Google Reader APIDecember 11, 2008
Last week I finally got around to doing something I've long intended: I moved all my RSS feeds into Google Reader and finally said goodbye to Bloglines. More interesting things have been coming from Google's direction lately, and though there's a public beta of a new version of Bloglines it's been feeling stagnant. The final tipping points for me were the ASP errors the mobile version's byte-trimming service has been issuing up for the past few weeks. So I switched, and after a very brief learning curve, I'm glad I did.
Aside from a nice iPhone-optimized version, one of the new toys I picked up in the switch is an unofficial Google Reader API. It's been in an unofficial state for a whole three years now, with no sign of an actual release, so documentation is sparse at best. This wiki seems to be the definitive source, and for non-programmers like myself, it's mind-bendingly vague.
One of the speculative reasons for the lack of an official release is the authentication currently necessary to log in and start using the API, and that proved to be exactly what I've spent the past few days banging my head against. Unless my Google-fu has weakened, there doesn't appear to be much publicly-available code for using the API, and virtually nothing in PHP. So I figured I'd share what I came up with.
This is a script for logging in with your own account and pulling out your latest unread items in the form of an Atom feed. Drop the script on your server, change the login id and password, and it should work as intended. I haven't explored much yet, and probably will never do anything beyond read-only, so you're on your own past this point. But hopefully it'll save someone a few hours anyway.
// ----------------------------------------
// Google Reader Authentication in PHP
// a basic script to get you in the door of
// Google's unofficial Reader API
// by Dave Shea, mezzoblue.com
// ----------------------------------------
// cobbled together from notes on:
// http://code.google.com/p/pyrfeed/wiki/GoogleReaderAPI
// these are the urls we'll need to access various services
$urlAuth = "https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin";
$urlAtom = "http://www.google.com/reader/atom";
// our array of login data
$login = array(
"service" => "reader",
"continue" => "http://www.google.com/",
// Google id-only of the account holder
// ie. for email@example.com, just use example
"Email" => "google-id",
// the account's password in plaintext
"Passwd" => "password",
// an identifying name for your script, can be anything
"source" => "my reader script",
// first step is to authenticae
// let's build a POST request using the login data array
$postRequest = "";
foreach($login as $field => $value) {
$postRequest .= $field . "=" . $value . "&";
// start buffering what we get back
$ch = curl_init($urlAuth);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postRequest);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
// throw the buffer into a variable
$loginResult = ob_get_contents();
// we just received three lines of ugliness to contend with.
// each line is a huge string preceded with an ID
// the IDs are: SID, LSID, and Auth; we only want SID
// let's use some string parsing to weed it out
if ($i = strstr($loginResult, "LSID")) {
$SID = substr($loginResult, 0,
(strlen($loginResult) - strlen($i)));
$SID = rtrim(substr($SID, 4, (strlen($SID) - 4)));
// so we've found the SID
// now we can build the cookie that gets us in the door
$cookie = "SID=" . $SID .
"; domain=.google.com; path=/; expires=1600000000";
// this builds the action we'd like the API to perform
// in this case, it's getting our list of unread items
$action = $urlAtom .
// note that the hyphen above is a shortcut
// for "the currently logged-in user"
// start buffering what we get back
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $action);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, true);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIE, $cookie);
curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
// throw the buffer into a variable
$xml = ob_get_contents();
// and finally, let's take a look.
echo $xml;
In mid 2010, Google changed the way authentication happens. This code example shows a working authentication process with the new system.
This is only vaguely related to the article, but the excellent Bylines iPhone app is very much recommended: if you do substantial on the go reading it's a much more robust option than the mobile site.
I started using Google Reader a few days ago as opposed to having a lot of little widgets on Google IG. I have also been thinking a lot about trying to get my recent items onto my blog. I haven't had a chance to implement it yet, but I'll definitely refer back to this when I do.
@Sam, I don't know if you mean all your recently read items in Google Reader or something else, but I've recently been experimenting with using Google Reader's "Share with Note" as one way of blogging. I've found that a lot of blog posts I want to make are really my thoughts on an article. It turns out that there is an atom feed of your shared items that you can get by clicking on "Shared items," then the "at this web page" link. I think that is a list of all your shared items, not just shared with notes.
So, instead of all your recent reading (I know mine is several hundred per day), you can just share stuff and have it show up on your page with an atom parser. They also have a bookmarklet that will allow you to share any page in Google Reader (it even populates the text to share with what you highlight on the page).
Needless to say, those features have been quite helpful to me as I've been developing my new (unlaunched) site.
Speaking of RSS feeds, the feed for your blog is currently broken. You've got a "]]>" at the end of the description section for this post, but without a matching "
I'm getting this:
Further action needs to be taken by your user agent in order to fulfill the request.
I supose it has something to do with extra-information needed
@mordisko - it should work just fine if you drop it on your server and change the Email and Passwd values to a valid Google Reader account. Did you do that part? Is it still not working?
(The error you're getting is the same unhelpful message I kept getting myself during development, by the way)
Read it - tested it, and launched it… many thanks for the reference - this works like a charm for me!
A question re Robert's reply (#3) above:
I've been trying to do the same thing, but am having trouble syndicating the Google Shared Items atom feed without a fully-qualified url (i.e. with an .xml, .rss, or .rdf extension). Fully-qualified url feeds are a requirement of Drupal's Aggregator module, which I'm hoping to use for deploying on my own site.
Any thoughts?
Resolved the issue above with an atom parser module in Drupal: http://drupal.org/node/326601
Apologies for posting a Drupal-specific issue to this more general discussion.
I ended up here while searching for Google Reader API… but I had up comment on Daryl's comment (#1) which, if you think about it for a little bit, you might understand how these two things relate… :p
After looking into several GR iPhone apps, I was really about to purchase Bylines… But gladly I read some reviews at the AppStore that saved me $5! An RSS app that doesn't allow reading by individual feed is *unacceptable*!! Add to that the fact that it doesn't save your window position/location (not alone on this, but a huge FAIL for any iPhone app giving the constant necessity of jumping between apps and no background support) and I think that charging $5 for it is not wrong, but paying $5 for it is from a purely economic perspective…
As to why I was looking for GR API documentation… :)

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Health care industry pundits believe the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010 will restructure the way millions of Americans receive health insurance, but that it may do little to control costs. There is concern that one of the unintended consequences will be further consolidation of hospitals and physicians, which could result in still higher prices.
Largely overlooked by many critics, however, are payment and delivery system reforms in the legislation that will lead to the further development of accountable care organizations (ACOs). If the payment reforms are fully implemented, ACOs have the capacity to significantly reduce costs and restructure health care delivery.
Health plans must help lead the development of new organizational structures and develop core competencies such as data analytics, predictive modeling, risk adjustment and claims administration if ACOs are to succeed financially.
Job #1 of ACOs is to reduce costs. Neither medical groups, hospitals, nor health plans have an effective business model or the required resources — acting separately — to do the job adequately. Health plans have core assets such as marketing, claims data, claims processing, reimbursement systems and capital. It would be too costly for all but the largest provider-sponsored ACOs to develop these capabilities. On the other hand, medical groups and hospitals are better positioned to foster financial interdependency and clinical integration among the continuum of providers and care settings.
It simply makes more business sense for providers and payers to put skin in the game, commit themselves to reasonable clinical and cost goals, and share resources to minimize expense and financial risk.
Skeptics, including some leading economists, point to past efforts at cost control and see only marginal success, inasmuch as past efforts at organizational and financial reform — health maintenance organizations (HMOs), preferred provider organizations (PPOs), professional services organizations (PSOs), and integrated delivery networks (IDNs) — did little to constrain cost escalation except between 1985 and 1995.
Four new factors have fundamentally altered the landscape, increasing the potential for meaningful cost reduction:
Unlike previous efforts at reform, PPACA promotes organizational flexibility and innovation.
Four organizational models are emerging: network, organized medical group, hospital, and collaboration. While each incorporates varying levels of clinical integration, all have the potential to reduce cost and improve quality.
These models will focus on three main strategies. First, integrated care management programs will seek to engage patients around the clock. Advanced analytics and mobile technology make this possible. Second, providers will identify potentially preventable events (PPEs) by using clinical and IT resources. Under new payment schemes it will be an economic necessity to avoid preventable admissions, readmissions, complications, ancillary services, and emergency room visits. Third, clinical redesign will reconfigure how care is delivered to reduce cost, waste, and harm to patients.
Why will ACOs work, when HMOs, managed care, PSOs, and discounted fee-for-service failed to provide long term cost control? Five factors will drive cost reduction and improved care.
The ACO model of coordinated care with performance incentives for network providers holds enormous promise, but its current lack of structural and operational specifics permits broad interpretation of what it is and what infrastructure is required to be successful.
Fundamentally dissimilar programs might fly under the banner of ACOs and could discredit the potential contribution of this model if they are under-resourced while attempting to bundle payments for outcomes, not services. As a result, there will be many failures as the health care industry comes to grips with what is required to be a successful ACO.
Costs cannot be controlled in a sustained manner without further clinical care redesign. The time-honored alternative is to cut provider payments. ACOs have an opportunity to reduce costs and increase quality because they are mandated to clinically integrate as an organization, focus on Medicare cost control, and manage commercial insurance contracts. Three opportunities for cost control stand out: preventing medical events, managing chronic illness, and managing medical systems.
Millions of duplicative and sometimes-harmful medical procedures are performed every year. An effort is under way to identify, catalogue, and reduce these PPEs. Five types are being targeted.
Preventable complications. Events that cause unnecessary harm to the patient and cost to the system above and beyond the natural progression of an illness or injury.
Preventable readmissions. Returns to the hospital that could have been avoided through the care management process post discharge.
Preventable admissions. Admissions caused by lack of coordination and lack of access to ambulatory care.
Preventable ancillary services. Duplicative procedures or services that do not provide useful diagnostic or therapeutic information.
Preventable emergency room visits. Visits caused by inadequate services of a prior hospitalization, lack of access to ambulatory services, or poor patient care management.
Comparing PPEs to a baseline of best practices will allow ACOs and payers to create risk arrangements and shared-savings schemes around the reduction of potentially preventable events. While no reliable information exists about the extent of costs associated with PPEs, expert opinion suggests an 18–25 percent savings, while anecdotal information suggests savings could well top $100 billion per year.
Treating chronic illnesses accounts for up to 75 percent of health care expenses. ACOs can reduce costs by helping patients make better treatment and lifestyle choices and by assisting physicians in the care of chronically ill patients. Major opportunities include the following care management initiatives:
Diabetes clinics and management. Diabetes affects 17.5 million Americans and costs the health care system $116 billion a year. This is a major target for improving adherence to medical regimens, reducing expense, and increasing quality.
Treating cancer as a chronic illness. The cost of cancer treatment is projected to be 5 percent of all health care expenses. As cancer becomes increasingly treated as a chronic illness, ancillary settings will be the focus of care management.
Keeping congestive heart failure patients at home. CHF costs $38 billion to treat every year. It is the leading cause of unnecessary Medicare readmissions and can be better controlled through more sophisticated care management at the patient's home.
Reducing teenage asthma patient trips to the emergency room. Asthma events are the number one reason for teenage admission to the emergency room. Most could be avoided with better-understood treatment protocols and mobile monitoring technology.
Reducing obesity rates. About 9 percent of medical spending in the United States is attributed to aggregate overweight and obesity. Medicare and Medicaid finance half of these costs.
The medical condition lends itself to comprehensive behavior-change interventions and community care management.
As ACOs merge hospital and physician operations, pragmatic opportunities arise for focused and significant cost reduction. The key ones are:
Patient-centered medical homes. Well designed medical homes expand the services primary care physicians offer, effectively manage patient behavior, and provide alternatives for unnecessary hospitalization and emergency room visits.
Complex case management. In commercial populations a very small percentage of patients consumes 70 percent to 80 percent of every health care dollar. Complex-case management systems can reduce costs by 30 percent or more and increase the quality of outcomes.
Telehealth and e-visits. Late night phone calls are being replaced by e-visits. Specialty consultation is beginning to embrace telehealth anywhere at any time.
Hospitalist programs. Moving patients through to discharge and providing consistent care has been the bane of hospital administration. Physician hospitalist programs can accomplish both, depending on who implements the program.
Post-discharge care management. Discharge clinics and post-discharge management are resulting in dramatic drops in preventable readmissions and unnecessary utilization of ancillary services.
Hospice programs. Palliative care services reduce hospital costs by supporting patients in the least-intensive care setting while enhancing patient choice and family support.
While there are many reasons why medical groups and hospitals have not addressed these inefficiencies, the main one is financial. Providers are not paid to implement proven cost savings programs like discharge clinics or hospitalist programs. Rather, they are paid for piecemeal services associated with duplicate testing, longer hospital stays, and repeat physician visits. Delivery systems such as ACOs will be given incentives to implement more cost-effective patient care models by the adoption of global rates, capitation, and payments for episodes of care. It is not known whether ACO payment incentives will replace a sufficient amount of lost patient revenue to motivate physicians to participate short of full capitation.
The number of effective cost control and clinical redesign schemes available to ACOs is extensive. A practical strategy is to focus on the hospital side of the equation with hospitalists, discharge clinics, and complex case management. Creating patient-centered medical homes and utilizing quality outcomes as a basis for physician payment produce results. The challenge is how best to focus the organization on issues that matter most. Three issues are critical to success.
First is care management. Most organized health care entities know how to manage cases within their four walls. Few do a good job of managing care when the patient leaves the building. Yet tools are widely available to do both.
Upfront analytics identify at-risk, high-cost populations, create clinical groupings, assess financial opportunity, and point out potentially effective interventions.
Predictive modeling identifies individual patients that are at risk, outside of clinical indications, "frequent flyers," and not adhering to prescription drug regimens.
Disease registries and other role-based care management systems create task lists, automate patient communication, immediately engage physicians, and empower care managers to intervene.
Care managers specifically trained in cost reduction processes (i.e., PPEs) are empowered to take action and equipped with the appropriate stationary and mobile technology.
Insourced and embedded care managers engage physicians in their medical practices onsite, replacing offsite disease management vendors.
The second organizational issue is preventable events. The individual events are readily identifiable, but systematically preventing them requires measures and methodologies to be implemented across all departments and services. This requires deep analytical skills and a commitment to reporting life-threatening/changing errors and then having the courage to fix the errors. The keys to success include six elements:
Retrospective analytical tools that identify medical events and the rate of those events. These are compared with a best-practices database.
Predictive, real-time modeling tools that detect individual patients who are susceptible to preventable events such as admissions, readmissions, ER visits, and use of ancillary services.
Coordination with the care management system that tracks and engages patients in appropriate care and support services.
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Redesigned admissions procedures that route patients to the least restrictive, most appropriate level of care and provide for after-hours services.
Redesigned emergency rooms that route patients to nonemergent facilities and care.
A systemwide electronic medical record that reduces duplicative services. However, this may be beyond the reach of most providers in the near term.
And the third organizational issue is a commitment to care redesign. There are dozens of well-documented cost-reduction strategies that also increase quality of care. These include hospitalist programs, discharge clinics, chronic illness management, urgent care clinics, and patient-centered medical homes. The key to such interventions is the organization's resolve to change usual business practices. Necessities for successful clinical redesign include:
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Analytical tools that allow the ACO to match financial opportunities with clinical interventions.
Capital resources that can be used to invest in the redesign process and technology infrastructure, and to fund interim operations.
Management expertise with the breadth and depth of experience to implement clinical changes the ACO is trying to accomplish.
The success of ACOs will depend on their ability to meld clinical integration with health care data analysis. However, there is an institutional disconnect between those who have the data and those who need it. CMS and health plans have vast stores of data and can provide useful information. Moreover, CMS must provide sustained technical assistance to ACOs of varying sophistication and size for them to be successful.
Physicians participating in ACOs will be held accountable for directing patient care but currently have limited access to complete financial and medical data for patients. On the other hand, hospitals have the financial capacity and willingness to pay for data analysis, but little financial incentive to integrate data sets for network physicians.
Access to meaningful data and the ability to use it for clinical integration is one of the Achilles' heels of ACOs. One possible remedy is for each party to commit itself to a grand agreement to the timely sharing of data for the benefit of all patients. At the heart of ACO success is multiparty collaboration around the role and importance of shared information, because clinical integration hinges on meaningful data integration.
CMS and health plans hold the key to integrated information. Claims data are the basic building block to develop a longitudinal profile of a patient's cost and care history. Claims data can then be augmented by billing data, EMR outputs, health risk assessment data, lab feeds, and pharmacy records for a global patient profile.
Pathways already exist for sharing data, and stakeholders can build on them. Large information companies currently analyze and provide historical patient information, and health care providers have access to sophisticated analytical tools. The challenge is to agree on how to deliver the right information to the right person at the right time.
The key to ACO success is transparency and commitment among stakeholders. For health care organizations to be viable in the next five years, value integration must become the focus of C-suite leaders. Their collective role will be to integrate patient and provider data with clinical transformation and financial management of the organization.
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- Buy a frozen turkey if you want to get it well in advance of your meal. But if you have an old bird that's been in your freezer for years, it won't taste as fresh.
- Use a frozen turkey within a year for best taste, though the USDA says frozen turkeys are safe to eat years later.
- Just make sure you start thawing that turkey in time for that Thanksgiving dinner.
- And if you do prefer a fresh bird, buy it no more than two days before cooking.
Do you stuff the bird or do you cook the stuffing in a separate casserole dish?
- The safest way to prepare stuffing is outside the bird in a dish in the oven. The problem is that sometimes the bird is done before the stuffing reaches a safe temperature.
- But whether you cook stuffing in a dish or in the turkey, you must use a meat thermometer to check the temperature.
- Safely cooked stuffing must reach 165 degrees.
- By the way, for safety's sake, the turkey itself must read 165 degrees on a thermometer placed at the innermost part of the turkey thigh.
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- The only way to know if your turkey is safe is to use a food thermometer.
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- And the meat of smoked turkey is always pink, so you shouldn't be alarmed in this case.
How long does it take a frozen turkey to defrost?
- It takes approximately 24 hours of defrosting time in the refrigerator for every 4-5 pounds of turkey.
- That means a 12-to-16 pound turkey needs 3-to-4 days in the fridge to defrost. Go check your frozen bird now and see if you'll need to move it to the fridge this weekend.
- For faster defrosting, completely cover your turkey in cold water by putting it in a plastic bag or a large bowl.
- This method takes about 30 minutes per pound of turkey.
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- You should check the temperature with a meat thermometer in the innermost part of the thigh and wing, and the thickest part of the breast.
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There is no point in creating a new "T-share" segment in the stock market if the government tries to boost flagging stock turnover by simply bumping up stock listings. Investors are losing interest in the stock market, not for lack of choices, but because of rising costs.
Stock investors are moving to the sidelines as they calculate whether they can create any payback on their investments in local stocks after paying the newly announced stock gain tax, plus an imminent 2 percent extra payment from annual dividend incomes, which the government plans to use to save the crumbling public health insurance system.
The extra healthcare premium policy pushed stock turnover down 36 percent to NT$56.69 billion (US$1.94 billion) on Oct. 1, the first day of trading following the policy announcement by the Department of Health on Sept. 29. Though the new policy will only affect retail investors, it has dealt a blow to investor confidence as a whole.
The stock market suffered its fourth straight losing week on Friday, down 3.3 percent from the previous week with turnover of NT$66.6 billion, well below the "healthy" level of NT$100 billion.
The stock market has also been under pressure from a struggling global economy and poor corporate earnings reports.
On Thursday, Premier Sean Chen (陳冲) said the government was studying all possible approaches to refuel investor's appetite for the stock market.
One option for the government could be to encourage Chinese corporations to launch initial public offerings (IPOs) as "T-shares" on the stock market.
The "T-shares" would be similar to "H-shares" traded on the Hong Kong stock market, also known as the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index. Many of China's big companies and primarily state-run enterprises trade their shares on stock markets in both Hong Kong and China.
The government has said that the creation of a "T-share" subgroup could attract large-scale Chinese enterprises like China Mobile to list their stocks on the bourse, which would in turn help push up turnover. No details about the trading terms for "T-shares" were disclosed.
In general, the "T-share" segment is identical to the existing "F-shares" trading mechanisms and Taiwan Depositary Receipts (TDR). Foreign companies trade their shares under the "F-share" group, while Taiwanese firms with overseas operations float their shares here by issuing TDRs. "T-shares" are similar to TDRs. The only difference is that "T-shares" target Chinese firms, rather than Taiwanese firms, as TDRs do.
However, TDR trading has been in the doldrums for some time as most TDRs are issued by small and medium-sized companies, which are unable to compete with blue-chip stocks for investors attention.
As the Taiwanese stock market is considered less global than its Hong Kong counterpart in scale and trading regulations, it is doubtful that Taiwan will appeal to big Chinese firms looking to raise funds via an IPO. Instead, Taiwan could attract smaller firms to list shares.
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Rukanova, Boriana; van Stijn, Eveline; Zinner Henriksen, Helle; Baida, Ziv; Tan, Yao-Hua (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: A major challenge for European governments is solving the dilemma of increasing security and control of international trade, while at the same time reducing the administrative overhead carried by commercial and public administration organizations. Process redesign and use of ICT are widely perceived as key components of a solution. Thus, we see that many ICT-driven change efforts have taken and continue to take place under the header of eGovernment. These changes are not always successful, however, and not yet wellunderstood. In this article, we provide an interpretive longitudinal account of the strategic IS efforts at the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration (DTCA). Instead of focusing on IS that supports the government itself or the relations between governments and citizens, we seek to contribute to the sparse literature that is specifically directed at the interactions between EU initiatives in eGovernment, national governments, and businesses. By providing a narrative of DTCA that spans multiple levels and multiple time frames, we seek to explore eGovernment developments from the 1960s to now. We discuss our findings by examining the changes at DTCA building primarily on Van de Ven & Poole's (1995) work "Explaining development and change in organizations" in which they describe four "motors of change" – life cycle, teleology, dialectics, and evolution – and we combine it with some of Pettigrew's ideas on change. This combinatory theory offers a way of thinking about the occurrence of change in a dynamic context, both for researchers and practitioners. A key implication is that the theory is not only useful retrospectively, but can also be used to identify "running motors" and as such, awareness of the complexities and dynamics of these change processes can provide an impetus for managers and action researchers to identify challenges and opportunities to influence change. Keywords: eGovernment, eCustoms, regulation, organizational change, longitudinal, historical, interpretive URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6449
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the efficacy of institutional discourseZinner Henriksen, Helle; Viborg Andersen, Kim (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: During the mid to late 1990s, shaping diffusion of B2B e-commerce was a key priority for governments and business associations. Viewing e-commerce as the key to continuous economic growth and a vehicle for transformation to the digital economy, national action plans were formulated to accelerate the standard development and adoption of e-commerce. This chapter argues that the Danish EDI Action Plan from 1996 cemented structural problems for the ongoing adoption and diffusion of newer B2B technologies due to a discrepancy between goals and actions, imbalanced partner allocation in standard development and an overwhelming focus on the public sector despite ambitions to fuel the overall business adoption of B2B e-commerce. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6475
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Zinner Henriksen, Helle; Viborg Andersen, Kim; Juul, Niels Christian (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Sammenfatning af undersøgelsen En netop gennemført spørgeskemaundersøgelse afdækker et betydeligt skift i kommunernes anvendelse af Internettet til indkøb i 2004 i forhold til to og fem år tidligere, hvor tilsvarende undersøgelser blev gennemført. Hvor det i 2002 var de mindre kommuner der var bedre til at søge information om vareindkøb på nettet, er dette billede dramatisk ændret i 2004. De mellemstore kommuner og store kommuner har distanceret de mindre kommuner. Det er overvejende de store kommuner der anvender e-indkøb og udnytter en stor del af de muligheder e-indkøb giver. De danske kommuner har i betydeligt omfang taget Internettet til sig på indkøbsområdet. Fra for fem år siden at være stort set uberørt af Internettet, er det i dag mindre end 2 procent der ikke køber ind via Internettet dagligt, ugentligt eller månedligt. De danske kommuner klarer sig ikke bare godt vurderet ud fra tidligere års præstationer, men også sammenlignet med norske kommuner som har indgået i undersøgelsen. De norske kommuner der medvirkede i undersøgelsen, er således på samme niveau, som de danske var for godt to år siden. Undersøgelsen viser, at den væsentligste drivkraft for implementering er forbedring af arbejdsrutiner, mens økonomiske besparelser kommer længere nede af listen. Trods den positive vurdering af mulighederne for bedre arbejdsrutiner og økonomiske besparelser, er kun 3% af kommunernes leverandører e-indkøbs leverandører, mindre end 1% af kommunernes indkøbsbudget anvendes online og blot 3% af kommunernes fakturaer modtages som e-fakturaer. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6444
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Viborg Andersen, Kim; Zinner Henriksen, Helle (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Bhutan is in economic terms highly dependent of tourism. E-tourism is in this report assessed as a mean to maintain the current positive development in tourism and as a driver for extending tourism to new markets. Effective use of information, communication, distribution and transactions through the new media, such as the Internet, can lead to an increased level of economic activity in the tourism sector in Bhutan. Also, the indirect economic impacts on transportation, accommodation and the retail/ handicraft industry can be substantial. The macro-economic impacts of e-tourism in terms GDP growth, improvement of the foreign exchange balance, and increased employment are in this report described in three scenarios based on a forecasted annual increase in tourism by 15%. In the event driven scenario where the Bhutanese tourism industry manages to increase the number of bed nights per tourist and their consumption by 15% and to increase the number of international arrivals by 5%, there is a short term increase in the GDP output from the tourism sector and the dependent sectors by 22.4%, an improvement of the foreign exchange balance by 1.2 million USD, and an increase in the employment in the tourism sector and the dependent sectors by 5.1%. In the transition driven scenario the Bhutanese tourism sector manages to use the internet and other technologies to increase the number of international arrivals by 15% but the number of bed nights increases by only 5% and the consumption by 5%. In this scenario, the GDP output increases by 8.7% and employment by only 2.3%, whereas the foreign exchange balance increases by 623,000 USD. In the tourism consumption spending driven scenario, there is an increase in the number of international arrivals and bed nights by 5% only, but the consumption by tourists increases by 15%. Thus, the GDP contribution from the tourism sector and the dependent sectors increases by 15.5% and employment by 6.7%, whereas the foreign exchange balance increases by 873,000 USD. There are several challenges to be met in order for the full scale benefits of e-tourism to materialize. Effective online visa procedures and marketing training of tour operators are being implemented as part of the E-Bhutis project. Economic incentives for the tour operators and the scale of economics benefits are less visible in the current business structure. The relative limited international orientation of the tour market and the lack of international players at the Bhutan market are other inhibiting factors for e-tourism to materialize in the Bhutanese economy. This report also highlights several facilitating factors for e-tourism to flourish: the commitment by the Association of Bhutanese Tour Operators (ABTO) and the willingness of the various institutional players to facilitate a smoother visa application process. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6439
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Economic and political rationalityZinner Henriksen, Helle; Mahnke, Volker; Meiland Hansen, Jens (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6480
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Rosemary is commonly grown in the herb garden as a domestic remedy, used especially as a tonic and pick-me-up when feeling depressed, mentally tired, nervous etc. Research has shown that the plant is rich in volatile oils, flavanoids and phenolic acids, which are strongly antiseptic and anti-inflammatory. Rosmarinic acid has potential in the treatment of toxic shock syndrome, whilst the flavonoid diosmin is reputedly more effective than rutin in reducing capillary fragility. Rosmarol, an extract from the leaves, has shown remarkably high antioxidant activity. The whole plant is antiseptic, antispasmodic, aromatic, astringent, cardiac, carminative, cholagogue, diaphoretic, emmenagogue, nervine, stimulant, stomachic and tonic. An infusion of the flowering stems made in a closed container to prevent the steam from escaping is effective in treating headaches, colic, colds and nervous diseases. A distilled water from the flowers is used as an eyewash. The leaves can be harvested in the spring or summer and used fresh, they can also be dried for later use. This remedy should not be prescribed for pregnant women since in excess it can cause an abortion. An essential oil distilled from the stems and leaves is often used medicinally, that distilled from the flowering tops is superior but not often available. The oil is applied externally as a rubefacient, added to liniments, rubbed into the temples to treat headaches and used internally as a stomachic and nervine. The essential oil is used in aromatherapy. Its keyword is "Stimulant".
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Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service (NIFRS) has launched a recruitment drive for Community (Part-Time) Firefighters in 12 Fire Stations across Northern Ireland.
Community Firefighters help protect the local community and respond to emergency incidents including fires, road traffic collisions and other specialist service calls such as chemical spills, collapsed buildings and other types of rescues.
They also play a crucial role in providing safety advice and assistance in the local community.
NIFRS is looking to recruit people who can respond to the following Fire Stations within 5 minutes of being alerted by pager – Kilrea, Cushendall, Ballymena, Whitehead, Carnlough, Carryduff, Comber, Holywood, Newtownstewart, Dungannon, Belleek and Lisnaskea Fire Stations.
Brian Stanfield, Group Commander, Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service said: "Simply put, NIFRS could not operate without our Community Firefighters as they provide the emergency fire and rescue services to local towns and villages across Northern Ireland.
"It is an extremely rewarding and interesting job. Community Firefighters must be able to quickly respond to emergency call-outs by making their way to the Fire Station within 5 minutes, where they will meet the rest of their crew.
"Local employers have an equally important role to play in the success of the Community Firefighter system by allowing their employees to become Community Firefighters. Hundreds of local employers across Northern Ireland employ Community Firefighters, benefiting by having someone on site who has developed a wide range of skills and experience including the ability to work as part of a team. NIFRS greatly appreciates the support of local employers in helping provide the best possible fire and rescue service."
He said Community Firefighters are paid a retaining fee, emergency call-out payments and a payment to attend a weekly drill night which is two hours per week in the evening.
He added that Community Firefighters "are trained to the highest standards and take part in 12 days training each year to ensure we have the most highly skilled Firefighters to help protect our local communities".
Recruitment Information nights are being held at each recruiting Fire Station . Candidates can apply online and download application packs from the NIFRS website – www.nifrs.org/careers
The release adds that NIFRS is currently under represented by females and applications from this group are particularly welcome. Appointment will be made solely on merit.
The closing date for applications is 3.00 pm on Friday 15 September 2017.


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By Jennifer Wadsworth
You'd think an offer from a strange woman to skinny-dip in your pool would arouse more suspicion than anything else.
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But while the woman splish-splashed away in her birthday suit, her companion, who told the obliging voyeur he was off to buy a pack of cigarettes, allegedly made off with about $1,000 in jewelry, a handgun and some prescription narcotics.
This all happened on June 27, according to Nashville's ABC News affiliate News 2.
The victim, 54-year-old Stephen Amaral, told reporters that he handed the 30-something-year-old woman a towel to dry up when she finished.
What a gentleman. He even thought about the gal's spiritual condition.
"I escorted her outside and invited her to church, but she said she didn't have time for that, she wasn't ready for that," Amaral told the news crew.
What a saint. He didn't notice anything amiss until the couple left.
Online commenters got a kick out of the crime.
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"Maybe he should have been thinking with his head (I mean the other one)," writes another.
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Following months of intensive advocacy, FCM today released our recommendations for next year's federal budget. This is no time to rest on past gains. This budget-the last of this government's current mandate-is a critical time to deliver for the Canadians we all serve.
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