RAND played a pivotal role in emerging technologies throughout the 20th century, from satellites and computers to information-sharing systems, packet switching, and artificial intelligence. RAND now explores the policy implications of emerging technologies across a broad scope of areas such as patient outcomes and health care quality; energy and environmental standards; privacy; military weapon systems; and training teachers and students in the 21st century.
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New medical technologies -- pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and procedures -- often allow great improvements in the outcomes of medical care, but they are also widely believed to be a major cause of increasing costs.
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Focuses on evaluation and adoption of innovative procedures and medical devices by managed care organizations (MCOs).
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Summarizes the issues that arose and the discussions held during the meetings of a 1998-1999 study group focusing on global governance of information technology and biotechnology.
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The Role of Information Technology in Housing Design and Construction
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Information Technology in the Home: Barriers, Opportunities, and Research Directions
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This report presents the results of an international analysis of government programs and initiatives aimed at stimulating innovation and sustainable development.
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This report, prepared for and funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning, and the Environment, presents the results of an international analysis of government programs and initiatives aimed at stimulating innovation and sustainab...
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Workforce Development in Emerging Industries
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Testimony presented before the Committee on Science Subcommittee on Technology United States House of Representatives on September 13, 2000.
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This report presents the results of a study undertaken at the request of the American Electronics Association and a consortium of high-tech industries.
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This report uses Current Population Survey data from 1997 to update trends in computers and connectivity since an earlier 1995 study.
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This book explores the possibility for expanded citizen-government personalized electronic communication.
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Not too long ago industry almost monolithically viewed environmental considerations as an expense — sometimes as a nuisance. That is beginning to change.
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This handbook serves as a national resource, to bring together for the first time, in a single document, information about tissue storage in the United States.
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While the vulnerabilities of traditional, paper records are well understood and can be mitigated by procedures and techniques developed over the centuries, the new vulnerabilities of digital records are not yet fully appreciated or comprehended.
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Outlines the first steps in an emerging international dialogue on the promise and potential problems of cyberspace as an economic environment. Part of an international undertaking to examine financial crime concerns.
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Analyzes the role of the emerging global information infrastructure in helping higher-education institutions to improve learning and teaching, improve the creation of learning materials, create communities, compete with new providers, and address policy/planning issues.
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Studies the Blood Alcohol Concentration level of motor vehicle drivers in California with the use on self-reports of alcohol use by a microcomputer.
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Suggests that emerging technologies will eliminate or substantially reduce a major drawback of this developing role for light forces: their vulnerability to attacks from heavily armored enemies.
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Conducted as project of the National Center for Research on Vocational Education (NCRVE), examines emerging computer-based educational technologies and discusses their current penetration into, and potential relevance for vocational education.
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