Telemedicine: developing a framework to classify technology strategies.

The healthcare industry has recently been bombarded with new innovations in information technology (IT), one of the most promising of which is telemedicine. In this paper, a framework is developed, which classifies various types of telemedicine. Through the framework and examples, hopefully a better understanding of the various types is provided.

Caveat emptor: rank transform methods and interaction.

When distributional assumptions for analysis of variance are suspect, and nonparametric methods are unavailable, ecologists frequently employ rank transformation (RT) methods. The technique replaces observations by their ranks, which are then analysed using standard parametric tests. RT methods are widely recommended in statistics texts and in manuals for packages like SAS and IMSL.

Liberty, equality, fraternity and the delivery of health care in France.

As U.S. policy makers debate President Clinton's health care reform proposal, we need to remind ourselves that no other country has actually solved the health care cost problem.