WellPoint Reports Second Quarter 2009 Results

... prior year net medical claims payables less prior year redundancies in the current period 13.3% 4.9% 4.8% 6.8% 14....an originally estimated. (2) The reported 2006 ratio of prior year redundancies in the current period to prior year net incurred medical claims is impa...

Lumension Integrates With Network Frontiers' Unified Compliance Framework To Simplify Compliance Challenges, Reduce Costs, And Harmonize Controls

... for hundreds of complex regulations, requirements and guidelines Assert compliance across multiple authority documents simultaneously Eliminate redundancies by eliminating overlapping requirements and documents Drill down for comprehensive explanations and sources for each common control "Key t...

Britannia Members Back Super-Mutual Merger With the Co-Operative Financial Services

...ame town, these may be merged in due course but there will be no compulsory redundancies among branch staff as a result of the merger. It is expected that ther...ts are also expected from procurement and supplier savings. Any compulsory redundancies will be kept to a minimum through redeployment, re-training and normal staf...

University of Miami President Donna E. Shalala, Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell: Nurse Practitioners Are Key to Obama Health Care Reform, Call for Increased Federal Funding for Innovative Nurse-Managed Health Care

...ll insurers in his or her market. A unified credentialing clearinghouse for all health care providers could reduce or eliminate unnecessary delays and redundancies in the credentialing process. This could reduce administrative costs in health centers by 25 percent. Increase Opportunities for Health IT I...

Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation Applauds Historic Passage of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act

...h paralysis and mobility impairments from any cause - stroke, ALS, spinal cord injuries and others. It encourages coordination of research to prevent redundancies and hasten discovery of better treatments and cures, as well as to improve the daily lives for those living with paralysis. The Act has three compone...

WellPoint Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008 Results

... 87.7% 87.9% 88.0% Prior year redundancies in the current period as a percent of prior ...r net medical claims payables less prior year redundancies in the current period ... 4.8% 6.8% 14.7% Prior year redundancies in the current period as a percent of prior y...

Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation Applauds Senate Passage of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act

... paralysis and mobility impairments from any cause -- stroke, ALS, spinal cord injuries and others. It encourages coordination of research to prevent redundancies and hasten discovery of better treatments and cures, as well as to improve the daily lives for those living with paralysis. The Act has three componen...

Ashland Completes Acquisition of Hercules

...most especially those in emerging economies," said O'Brien. Ashland anticipates approximately $120 million in annual run-rate savings by eliminating redundancies and capturing operational efficiencies by the end of fiscal year 2010. "Our integration team, guided by Ted Harris and supported by key representati...

WellPoint Reports Third Quarter 2008 Results

... 84.1% 87.9% 88.0% 88.2% Prior year redundancies in the current period as a percent of prior ye... net medical claims payables less prior year redundancies in the current period 4.8% 6.9% 6.8% 14.7% 18.7% Prior year redundancies in the current period as a percent of prior ye...

Brad Williams Joins OrthoSynetics(TM) as Director, IT Infrastructure

...y infrastructure. He also has experience in investigating, monitoring, repairing and strengthening vulnerabilities in large-scale IT networks to build redundancies and maximize structural security. Williams is a graduate of Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, TX, where he received his Bachelor of Busi...

Redundancies in Medical Technology

Velos to Develop Key System Interface for Clinical Research

...based methods for sponsors, clinical research fulfillment in its current automated form is still an incomplete system supply chain as a result of work redundancies at the site that are, in effect, reinforced, by the current system model. "The current state-of-the-art in EDC can actually increase the workloads f...

Redundancies in Biological News

Missing piece of plant clock found

...ions in plants, including timekeeping, frustrate efforts to identify the function of an individual molecule or gene. "In plants there are a lot of redundancies proteins that do similar things," said Jose Pruneda-Paz, a postdoctoral fellow at UC San Diego and the first author of the study. "In the clock, on t...

Census of Marine Life lists 122,500 known species, over halfway to complete inventory by Oct. 2010

... species and marine ecosystem functioning, as well as to educators. It will eliminate the misinterpretation of names, confusion over Latin spellings, redundancies and a host of other problems that sow confusion and slow scientific progress." Some species, such as those reclassified in years past based on ne...

Improving science, technology in Africa is aim as G-8, African, UN experts convene in Berlin

...et goals for improving African policies and institutions between 2006 to 2010. Participants in the Berlin meetings will look for ways to: Remove redundancies and create synergies between activities already underway; Promote S&T cooperation, the exchange of experiences and expertise, and create sustaina...

'Genetic network' guards against lethal DNA damage

...erent, play redundant roles in governing genomic integrity in yeast cells, filling in for each other when one of the genes is mutated or deleted. Such redundancies ensure that each task in the network of biochemical reactions governing DNA stability is accomplished, Boeke noted. Based on the data from this stu...

From a Few Wild Ancestors, a Citrus Cornucopia

...e acquired outside the United States. But it hasn’t been known, until recently, just what the collection’s real breadth and scope were. “There were redundancies and gaps in the collection that needed to be sorted out,?says Krueger, “and some specimens had even been mislabeled.?Mistakes are costly for curators,...

Redundancies in Biological Technology

Virtify, Inc. Delivers Industry's First Enterprise Content Compliance Software Suite for Life Sciences Companies

...tes. The suite's workflow design enables collaborative content authoring, reviewing, archiving, and re-use - virtually eliminating inconsistencies and redundancies enterprise-wide. Virtx tailors upstream functions, such as content authoring and reviewing to meet electronic requirements and standards, while automa...

Progen Restructures Manufacturing and Drug Discovery Divisions

... been completed. PG545 has been selected for investigational new drug (IND) enabling studies, which are being outsourced. The restructure involves 8 redundancies in the manufacturing division and 4 in drug discovery and aims to conserve current cash reserves for driving present and future Progen lead compounds ...

TeraMedica offers system integration tool for hospitals

...ent charts and medical records is scanned and assimilated into the hospital network, where it can be accessed at any point. Evercore helps remove any redundancies in the data and makes sure to fill in any gaps between storing and retrieving the data. Evercore also aims to eliminate vendor incompatibility betw...

Merge offshoring jobs to "more cost-effective" workforce

...rm need to better align our cost structure with our revenue-generating strategies, Rardin said, noting that the management team has identified several redundancies within the consolidated organization. Citing a need for Merge to become more flexible, global, and nimble, Rardin added, This is not simply a headc...

Redundancies in Biological Dictionary

Normalization

...ds to flexible, ... Normalization follows a set of rules worked out at the time relational databases ... Normalization is a process of reducing redundancies of data in a database. ... However, normalization is an important process that, if understood, will ... In creating a database, normalization i...