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From the article, both machines run faster, produce clearer films and meet all safety standards. So making a choice on which machine to buy will be based on other factors rather than these. Which machine brings the greatest benefit to the hospital and which is paid for by itself are among the factors to consider. Whichever one l chose between the two, I will have to deal with a problem called opportunity cost. Both the mammogram and the MRI machines cannot be purchased at the same time. The current budget allocated to the department cannot take care of both machines. This means one of machines will have to be selected over the other. Opportunity cost is the benefit, profit, or value of something that must be given up to acquire or achieve something else. (www.Businessdictionary .com) If l chose the mammogram machine over the MRI machine, then the opportunity cost is letting go of the MRI machine.
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Recording and analyzing costs as well as expenses will be additional information that l will need to consider before making the choice between the mammogram
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Slide 28 of the same chapter also says that there are at least two questions that need to be asked with every capital budget. The two questions are; does the asset at least pay for itself and does the asset add value to the organization? We know that both projects are capital projects since their useful lives will be more than one year and also both will add value to the organization. However, from the available information, one of the machines will not pay for itself. The mammography program will give the poor and low income the opportunity to have examinations that they can’t afford. However, compared to the MRI machine, it does not pay for itself because no revenue will be realized from its
This charge is also another revenue stream for the hospital and contributes to the ROI of the equipment. GE, which is the manufacturer of the equipment, indicates that the equipment has a viable life span of up to 15 years, but the warranty only covers the first 6 years of use (Price, 2011). The above figures are a clear indication that the MRI equipment can provide the hospital with an adequate return on investment. These figures, the machine’s lifespan, and the growing demand for MRI scans serve to justify the purchase of the equipment. Other factors that enhance the returns from the equipment include:
Rob Pettigrew is the manager of technical systems and help desk center of Wyoming Medical Center in Casper, Wyoming. Protecting networks are getting harder as there are different types of devices being used by companies. An example of this is Wyoming Medical Center has four different classifications of PCs, PCs in the hallways for the staff to use, PCs at the nursing stations, PCs in offices, and PCs on that move between patient rooms. Pettigrew deployed Novell ZenWorks to 850 of the medical centers 900 PCs to ensure each one has the right software. With having multiple applications, medical software systems, and the different machine types, and restrictions make it difficult for Pettigrew to ensure proper protection for the network. Another concern is the
"Christie reported that the doctor's laptop would not boot and showed only a black screen with a blinking cursor. Walked Christy through entering the system setup to verify boot settings. Walked her through running the Samsung Recovery feature to restore crucial Windows files. This issue was not resolved. Christy brought the computer to our office. Enabled UEFI boot which allowed the computer to boot into Windows, however, the system encountered a bluescreen and restarted. Booted into safe mode. Used a utility to determine the cause of the bluescreen and found it to be outdated wireless network adapter drivers. Downloaded and installed the latest drivers from the manufacturer, as well as the video adapter drivers. Searched
Due to the technological advances in the medical industry, the clinic has decided on advanced medical equipment to provide quality care to the patients. The equipment that will be purchased is a High- Speed CT Scanner, X-Ray Machine, and an Ultrasound Machine. This equipment will allow more quick and efficient test and treatment. The options that can be made include: buying new or refurbished equipment with an option of a loan, acquiring on capital or operating lease. During this phase, I chose the most cost effective option to acquire the equipment. To acquire the equipment, I chose the operating lease. Since there are always potential advances in technology, buying the equipment may not be a good idea. In the long term, the equipment that was purchased will likely be replaced by newer technology in a few years. Due to the decisions of acquiring new equipment, the clinic is now doing well and the profits are growing which allowed growth for the clinic.
The assignment given to the peer student for the second week said to give as much information on the subject of the tree structure directory and explain some of the strength and weaknesses associated with the application.It seems to me that you have given the peer students in the class a wealth of information on the tree structure and the concepts that may support the achievement and the function that which will be applied to the command prompt function and its usage.
When the user has to access an account in the System to view his Profile ,or to view record or other information.
Because Kerry Grooms inquired about the status of his temporary PIV exception for the SCI/DI site, the Web Developer followed up with Krystal Harne asking passing on his question.
At 5:50 - 6:10, Sarah advises the client that he can keep the reset password, however, this is temporary and unsecure, so we should always walk the client through resetting it once logged
The explosion in the amount of personally accessed information has made rebinding certain targets time consuming. It faces grand challenges just as arduous as information finding itself. To illustrate, let’s look at the following real information refinding scenarios. Information refinding is different from information finding. There is uncertainty in the latter process because users do not know enough information, while refinding is a more directed process as users have already seen the information before .A general way to support information refinding is to maintain access logs, recording what users have ever seen based on their revisit frequencies, say, an hour ago, one day ago, one month ago, and so on. As the logs
1) Decompress the APK packages of old version and the new one of an application.
It sounds like a couple things happened that caused this CR to be higher than what I had stated two weeks ago:
c. We need an exogenous shock to dividend tax rate in order to test how dividend taxation affect divided policy. I will use the 2003 Dividend cut. There are many factors for dividend vs repurchase. In addition to dividend tax, Roni also talked about the signaling role of payout policy, agency problem related to payout policy and behavioral biases related to divided vs, repurchase. Therefore, it is not clear now tax affected divided policy. An exogenous shock to dividend tax rate isolates the effect of tax on payout policy. We assume that dividend tax cut does not change other factors such firm’s agency problem or investor’s
This method of calculating costs could be beneficial or not depending on the organization and its size. In a healthcare setting, any healthcare institution is seen as delivering quality care and therefore most decisions regarding choice of the institution come down to the pricing. In order to compete for patients, the healthcare institution must bring its price down to the absolute margin. This will over time affect the institution badly as it will leave the institution without funds to replace the capital equipment. This can eventually lead to closing down of the financially weaker
In providing different health care options, it is also imperative for the medical personnel to highlight the cost affixed to each option. As this will also affect the patient’s decision, in that they may prefer to choose the procedure with lesser cost even though it has a little more risk. Owing to the fact that they can’t afford the other procedure at present. In the contrary they may opt to choose the more expensive one with more benefits as they are a believer in getting the best for themselves and they will go to the extent of acquiring the funds for their health.
There are a number of positive reasons to purchase of a CT scanner. Revenue is a major justification of the enormous costs of the innovative technology. Implementation of CT scans in care strategies can help increase hospital revenues. Hospitals traditionally bill patients for CT scans between $500 and $1,500 for each test "which were given to more than 150,000 people in this country last year [2007] at a cost exceeding $100 million," (Berenson &Abelson 2008). This can provide extra funding for increases in