2012-05-25T11:16:01Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/pubs/online/science-and-technology.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR993.html 2012-05-24T08:00:00.000-04:00 2012-05-24T08:00:00.000-04:00

Examines contracting alternatives for the full deployment phase of the U.S. Navy's Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) system, which is intended to give the Navy a common set of key command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence networks across the fleet. Recommends a multiple-contract model that assigns the technical, production, and installation functions to the organizations that can provide the best value.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1147.html 2012-05-24T07:30:00.000-04:00 2012-05-24T07:30:00.000-04:00

Nearly all Air Force electronics are tested and repaired using automatic test systems, most of which were designed and built for specific aging weapon systems and are beset by increasing hardware and software obsolescence. The Air Force is planning to modernize these capabilities by rehosting the testing on modern, common families of test equipment. This report focuses on the economic aspect of the rehosting decision.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201200104.html 2012-05-01T12:00:00.000-04:00 2012-05-01T12:00:00.000-04:00

Enrollment is increasing in consumer-directed health insurance plans, which feature high deductibles and a personal health care savings account.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1171.html 2012-04-30T12:30:00.000-04:00 2012-04-30T12:30:00.000-04:00

Carnegie Learning's Cognitive Tutor Algebra I (CTAI) curriculum is a technology-based curriculum that combines classroom instruction with individualized instruction by a computer-based tutor. This report examines the cost of implementing CTAI and comparison algebra I curricula, including costs associated with textbooks and software, computers, and teacher training.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/rgs_dissertations/RGSD295.html 2012-04-26T09:30:00.000-04:00 2012-04-26T09:30:00.000-04:00

Estimates changes in annual vehicle miles traveled in response to changes in the cost of driving that would result from adopting a mileage-based user fee.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1003.html 2012-04-24T09:45:00.000-04:00 2012-04-24T09:45:00.000-04:00

The authors propose a planning concept for U.S. military expeditionary medical care that, by promoting patient flow rate as the common unit of measurement, will help integrate medical planning across treatment and evacuation functions, across the increasing levels of care, and across the different military services.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1176.html 2012-04-18T08:45:00.000-04:00 2012-04-18T08:45:00.000-04:00

This report describes the result of an expert panel assembled to consider how the Army can get the best long-term value from its investments in basic research. The panel examined trends in basic research and R&D and profiled several top-quality research laboratories, to gain insight into how the Army might better structure and fund its own labs. The report offers a number of recommendations for improving the Army research effort.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/CF300.html 2012-04-16T09:00:00.000-04:00 2012-04-16T09:00:00.000-04:00

On December 14, 2011, the RAND Corporation hosted and moderated a roundtable conference with funding from the Marcellus Shale Coalition to assess the feasibility of using coal mine water and, specifically, drainage from coal mines, to support hydraulic fracturing operations in the Marcellus Shale formation. The event also sought to examine potential economic and environmental impacts and identify related data and regulatory gaps.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9650.html 2012-04-11T12:00:00.000-04:00 2012-04-11T12:00:00.000-04:00

According to a RAND study, document review makes up 73 percent of discovery costs. Predictive coding is the most promising option for cutting costs without compromising the quality of the process.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1208.html 2012-04-11T12:00:00.000-04:00 2012-04-11T12:00:00.000-04:00

This monograph provides a richly detailed account of the resources required by a diverse set of very large companies operating in different industries to comply with what they described as typical electronic-discovery requests and suggests ways to reduce those costs, as well as address concerns about duties to preserve data in anticipation of litigation.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1129.html 2012-04-02T09:15:00.000-04:00 2012-04-02T09:15:00.000-04:00

The federal electronic health record (EHR) incentive program includes clinical decision support (CDS) as a central requirement of improving health outcomes; however, a process for identifying and prioritizing the most promising targets for CDS has not been established. This report describes a protocol for eliciting high-priority targets for electronic CDS for individual clinical specialties and summarizes lessons learned.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/corporate_pubs/CP639z4-2012-03.html 2012-03-30T10:45:00.000-04:00 2012-03-30T10:45:00.000-04:00

For nearly a decade, RAND researchers have studied how health information technology (HIT) stands to change health care.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1016.html 2012-03-28T08:30:00.000-04:00 2012-03-28T08:30:00.000-04:00

An assessment of The Army Distributed Learning Program (TADLP) found that it has had a relatively narrow focus and has provided, at best, a modest benefit to unit readiness. Major changes are needed to meet increasing DL requirements within the Army. Several near-term initiatives are proposed for the Army's interactive multimedia instruction program to improve both the quality of the product and the efficiency and responsiveness of the process.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1218.html 2012-03-27T16:00:00.000-04:00 2012-03-27T16:00:00.000-04:00

RAND Europe conducted a feasibility study on a European Cybercrime Centre by reviewing literature, conducting extensive consultations with law enforcement and a scenario based workshop. The study evaluated different options for the set up of the ECC.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/DB597.html 2012-03-22T10:15:00.000-04:00 2012-03-22T10:15:00.000-04:00

This exploratory study investigates the characteristics of publications cited on clinical guidelines, and the funding sources they acknowledge, in order to better understand how research is translated into changes in policy and practice.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120073.html 2012-03-01T12:00:00.000-05:00 2012-03-01T12:00:00.000-05:00

The use of dedicated anesthesia providers for routine gastroenterology (GI) procedures is seen as medically justifiable only for high-risk patients. Eliminating these services for low-risk patients could save Medicare $1.1 billion per year.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201200111.html 2012-03-01T12:00:00.000-05:00 2012-03-01T12:00:00.000-05:00

Networks are increasingly invoked by contemporary economists as a novel mode of organising human endeavours, somewhere between price markets and command hierarchies, somehow able to produce coordinated coherence. The book emerges from a European Commission project aimed at developing new indicators and measures of innovation.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120070.html 2012-03-01T12:00:00.000-05:00 2012-03-01T12:00:00.000-05:00

Federal and state agencies are investing substantial resources in the creation of community health information exchanges, which are consortia that enable independent health care organizations to exchange clinical data.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/corporate_pubs/CP413-2012-02.html 2012-02-21T09:45:00.000-05:00 2012-02-21T09:45:00.000-05:00

This brochure describes the quality standards for RAND research.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR775.html 2012-02-17T13:45:00.000-05:00 2012-02-17T13:45:00.000-05:00

Provides an international overview of the barriers and facilitators to the wider adoption of electric vehicles.