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T Grandon Gill - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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OfficeTECH^®: a new paradigm in Office Services?
Journal of Information Technology, 2001Co-Authors: Susan J Winter, T Grandon GillAbstract:OfficeTECH^® is a start-up company providing Office assistance over the Internet. It certifies assistants' skills, matches them with potential clients, supervises the quality of the work done and provides software tools for on-line collaboration. The founder, Gayle Barr, believed that this type of assistance would soon be the predominant model due to a convergence of several trends. First, advances in the Internet technology GroupWare and their acceptance by managers and professionals coupled with growth in the amount of coordination across time zones due to globalization and expansion of the number of telecommuting workers indicated that clients would be willing and able to work in a virtual relationship with their assistants. Second, extensive corporate downsizing and a large number of home-based new business start-ups had created a large pool of clients who did not have adequate permanent assistance available. In addition, many companies were now using large numbers of part-time and contract workers on an ongoing basis for clerical and professional positions. Thus, Barr reasoned, the technology was accessible, the need for part-time and temporary administrative assistance was apparent and clients were now sufficiently comfortable with such arrangements that the OfficeTECH^® concept should be feasible.
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ICIS - OfficeTECH: a new paradigm in Office Services?
1999Co-Authors: Susan J Winter, T Grandon GillAbstract:OfficeTECH® is a start-up company providing Office assistance over the Internet. It certifies assistants' skills, matches them with potential clients, supervises the quality of the work done and provides software tools for on-line collaboration. The founder, Gayle Barr, believed that this type of assistance would soon be the predominant model due to a convergence of several trends. First, advances in the Internet technology GroupWare and their acceptance by managers and professionals coupled with growth in the amount of coordination across time zones due to globalization and expansion of the number of telecommuting workers indicated that clients would be willing and able to work in a virtual relationship with their assistants. Second, extensive corporate downsizing and a large number of home-based new business start-ups had created a large pool of clients who did not have adequate permanent assistance available. In addition, many companies were now using large numbers of part-time and contract workers on an ongoing basis for clerical and professional positions. Thus, Barr reasoned, the technology was accessible, the need for part-time and temporary administrative assistance was apparent and clients were now sufficiently comfortable with such arrangements that the OfficeTECH® concept should be feasible.
A. Everette James - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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New evidence of state variation in Medicaid payment policies for dual Medicare‐Medicaid enrollees
Health services research, 2020Co-Authors: Eric T. Roberts, Alok Nimgaonkar, Joshua Aarons, Heather E. Tomko, Adele Shartzer, Stephen Zuckerman, A. Everette JamesAbstract:To develop the first longitudinal database of state Medicaid policies for paying the cost sharing in Medicare Part B for Services provided to dual Medicare-Medicaid enrollees ("duals") and an index summarizing the impact of these policies on payments for physician Office Services. Medicaid policy data collected from electronic sources and inquiries with states. We constructed a national database of Medicaid payment policies for the period 2004-2018, consolidating information from online Medicaid policy documents, state laws, and policy data reported to us by state Medicaid programs. Using this database and state Medicaid fee schedules, we constructed a Medicaid payment index for duals. This index represented the proportion of the Medicare allowed amount that physicians would expect to be paid from Medicare and Medicaid for a subset of physician Office Services (evaluation and management Services) based on annual state payment policies and Medicaid fee schedules. In 2018, 42 states had policies to limit Medicaid payments of Medicare cost sharing when Medicaid's fee schedule was lower than Medicare's-an increase from 36 such states in 2004. In the preponderance of states with these policies, combined Medicare and Medicaid payments for evaluation and management Services provided to duals averaged 78 percent of the Medicare allowed amount for these Services, reflecting relatively low Medicaid fee schedules in these states. In 2013 and 2014, physicians who qualified for the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid "fee bump" were paid 100 percent of the Medicare allowed amount for these Services. Medicaid programs vary across states and over time in their payments of cost sharing for physician Office Services provided to duals. Our database and index can facilitate monitoring of these policies and research on the consequences of policy changes for duals. © Health Research and Educational Trust.
Nico Janssens - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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design of an open context aware platform enabling desk sharing Office Services
Proceedings of PSC2006 the 2006 International Conference on Pervasive Systems & Computing (part of the 2006 World Congress in Computer Science Compute, 2006Co-Authors: Matthias Strobbe, Gregory De Jans, Jan Hollez, Nico Goeminne, Bart Dhoedt, Filip De Turck, Piet Demeester, Thierry Pollet, Nico JanssensAbstract:In the coming years user-centric Services will be deployed in our homes, cars, Offices, etc. Users expect that these Services are autonomous and user-friendly. This requires that these Services can adapt themselves to changes in the environment, implying that they have to become contextaware. In this paper we present a formal context model and an OSGi based framework that allows easy development and installation of context-aware Services. The platform is open since it allows that new components are easily plugged in. Applicability is illustrated with a location determination use case in an desk sharing Office environment where employees don’t have a fixed location or desk.
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PSC - Design of an open context-aware platform enabling desk sharing Office Services
2006Co-Authors: Matthias Strobbe, Gregory De Jans, Jan Hollez, Nico Goeminne, Bart Dhoedt, Filip De Turck, Piet Demeester, Thierry Pollet, Nico JanssensAbstract:In the coming years user-centric Services will be deployed in our homes, cars, Offices, etc. Users expect that these Services are autonomous and user-friendly. This requires that these Services can adapt themselves to changes in the environment, implying that they have to become contextaware. In this paper we present a formal context model and an OSGi based framework that allows easy development and installation of context-aware Services. The platform is open since it allows that new components are easily plugged in. Applicability is illustrated with a location determination use case in an desk sharing Office environment where employees don’t have a fixed location or desk.
Han Rong-zhen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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SSL VPN Technology Used in the Enterprise Remote Office System
Computers & Security, 2009Co-Authors: Han Rong-zhenAbstract:With the development of information technology, enterprise needs to provide employees, affiliates, partners with remote Office Services. It is necessary to meet the large number of mobile users to quickly and easily access the corporate network interconnection demand and ensure that the data transmission on the Internet, as well as direct access from the Internet network security issues. In this paper, in comparision with several VPN technology ,we mainly discussed the SSL VPN technology in the enterprise remote Office systems.
Nobuyuki Otsu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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integrated natural spoken dialogue system of jijo 2 mobile robot for Office Services
National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1999Co-Authors: Toshihiro Matsui, Hideki Asoh, John Fry, Y Motomura, Futoshi Asano, Takio Kurita, Isao Hara, Nobuyuki OtsuAbstract:Our Jijo-2 robot, whose purpose is to provide Office Services, such as answering queries about people's location, route guidance, and delivery tasks, is expected to conduct natural spoken conversation with the Office dwellers. This paper describes dialogue technologies implemented on our Jijo-2 Office robot, i.e. noise-free voice acquisition system by a microphone array, inference of under-specified referents and zero pronouns using the attentional states, and context-sensitive construction of semantic frames from fragmented utterances. The behavior of the dialogue system integrated with the sound source detection, navigation, and face recognition vision is demonstrated in real dialogue examples in a real Office.
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AAAI/IAAI - Integrated natural spoken dialogue system of Jijo-2 mobile robot for Office Services
1999Co-Authors: Toshihiro Matsui, Hideki Asoh, John Fry, Y Motomura, Futoshi Asano, Takio Kurita, Isao Hara, Nobuyuki OtsuAbstract:Our Jijo-2 robot, whose purpose is to provide Office Services, such as answering queries about people's location, route guidance, and delivery tasks, is expected to conduct natural spoken conversation with the Office dwellers. This paper describes dialogue technologies implemented on our Jijo-2 Office robot, i.e. noise-free voice acquisition system by a microphone array, inference of under-specified referents and zero pronouns using the attentional states, and context-sensitive construction of semantic frames from fragmented utterances. The behavior of the dialogue system integrated with the sound source detection, navigation, and face recognition vision is demonstrated in real dialogue examples in a real Office.
