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Journal Article

Quantifying Individuals' Trade-Offs Between Privacy, Liberty and Security: The Case of Rail Travel in UK

This paper uses a stated choice experiment to quantify individuals' tradeoffs between privacy and security within a real-life context, namely rail travel in the UK.

Mar 31, 2010
Report

Enabling long-term access to scientific, technical and medical data collections

Presents the results of a scoping study that addresses the potential role of the British Library in facilitating access to relevant datasets in the biosciences and environmental science.

Feb 26, 2010
Report

Security, At What Cost? Quantifying People's Trade-Offs

To help policymakers understand the privacy, liberty, and security trade-offs individuals are willing to make, RAND Europe examined three real-life case studies where these factors come into play: applying for a passport, traveling on the national rail network, and attending a major public event.

Jan 8, 2010
Journal Article

Linking Reading Coaches and Student Achievement: Evidence from Florida Middle Schools

Although reading coaches are increasingly prevalent in schools nationwide, empirical evidence for their effects on student achievement is scarce. This article helps to address this gap by conducting an evaluation of a statewide reading coach program in Florida middle schools.

Jan 1, 2010
Journal Article

How Instructional Coaches Support Data-Driven Decision Making: Policy Implementation and Effects in Florida Middle Schools

This article examines the convergence of two popular school improvement policies: instructional coaching and data-driven decision making (DDDM). Drawing on a mixed methods study of a statewide reading coach program in Florida middle schools, the article examines how coaches support DDDM and how this support relates to student and teacher outcomes.

Jan 1, 2010
Journal Article

Using Matched Survey and Administrative Data to Estimate Eligibility for Medicare Part D Low Income Subsidy Program

This article uses matched survey and administrative data to estimate, as of 2006, the size of the population eligible for the Low-Income Subsidy (LIS), which was designed to provide "extra help" with premiums, deductibles, and copayments for Medicare Part D beneficiaries with low income and limited assets.

Jan 1, 2010
Journal Article

The Application of Biomarker Data to the Study of Social Determinants of Health

The authors adress the possibilities of including biomarkers in sociological research to map physiological pathways over the life course.

Jan 1, 2010
Journal Article

Thinking Inside the Box: A Participatory, Computer-Assisted Approach to Scenario Discovery

This paper systematically describes the scenario discovery concept and its implementation, presents statistical tests to evaluate the resulting scenarios, and demonstrates the approach on an example policy problem involving the efficacy of a proposed U.S. renewable energy standard.

Jan 1, 2010
Report

Data Collection Methods: Semi-Structured Interviews and Focus Groups

Provides an annotated version of a short course on qualitative research methods, focusing on semi-structured interviews and focus groups.

Dec 14, 2009
Report

Increase Health Information Technology Adoption and Connectivity

This document explores how increased health information technology (HIT) adoption and connectivity would affect health system performance along nine dimensions.

Oct 12, 2009
Report

Effects of Preanalytical Variables on the Quality of Biospecimens Used to Study Genetic Changes in Cancer: Development of the Biospecimen Research Database

This briefing describes the process used to identify and analyze the effects of preanalytical variables on biospecimens used to study genetic and proteomic changes in cancer and describes the development of the Biospecimen Research Database.

May 26, 2009
Commentary

The Cracks in Data Privacy

In the future, the EU will inevitably have to adjust its system of rules to cope with the evolving uses of personal data, globalization and international data flows, write Neil Robinson and Lorenzo Valeri.

May 19, 2009
Report

Review of the European Data Protection Directive

This report reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the EU Data Protection Directive and proposes avenues for improvement. The ideas presented here provide some ideas on how to improve the data protection regime for European citizens.

May 7, 2009
Journal Article

Do We Need Better Predictions to Adapt to a Changing Climate?

Many scientists have called for a substantial new investment in climate modeling to increase the accuracy, precision, and reliability of climate predictions.

Mar 31, 2009
Journal Article

Crossed Wires: How Yesterday's Privacy Rules Might Undercut Tomorrow's Nationwide Health Information Network

More than a decade after passage of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), concerns about the privacy and security of personal health information remain a major policy issue. Now, the emergence of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) presents deeper underlying privacy challenges, which will require renewed attention from policymakers as federal and state privacy rules need to be revisited.

Mar 15, 2009
Journal Article

Interoperable Electronic Prescribing in the United States: A Progress Report

Although the vast majority of U.S. physicians still handwrite prescriptions, adoption of electronic prescribing is slowly growing. Major barriers to adoption remain, including the inability to electronically submit prescriptions for controlled substances and confusion about standards for data exchange. Federal and state governments and private insurers are using payment and policy incentives to boost e-prescribing because they still believe in its promise for improving the quality and efficiency of health care.

Mar 15, 2009
Research Brief

Embracing the future: Embedding digital repositories in higher education institutions

Aims to clarify the different motivations to use and invest in digital repositories for higher education institutions, examining ways to address challenges in embedding digital repositories in institutional strategies and daily operations.

Feb 10, 2009
Journal Article

Veterans Health Administration and Indian Health Service: Healthcare Utilization By Indian Health Service Enrollees

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and Indian Health Service (IHS) have executed an agreement to share resources to improve access and health outcomes for American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) veterans. Describes the extent of dual use, health needs, and utilization patterns for IHS-enrollees served by VHA and IHS. Our objective is to fill those gaps in knowledge to inform strategic planning between these federal agencies.

Jan 1, 2009
Brochure

RAND and the Information Evolution: A History in Essays and Vignettes

This professional memoir, focusing on the first decades following World War II and the onset of digital computing, describes RAND's contributions to the evolution of both the technology and the profession of computer science. From the beginning, RAND researchers were focused on using computers to address real-world problems.

Nov 17, 2008
Commentary

Creating Health ID Numbers Could Improve Patient Privacy

As it considers ways to improve the efficiency and quality of U.S. health care, one issue that a new Congress should reconsider is the longstanding roadblock that has stalled efforts to create a system of unique patient identification numbers for every person in the United States, writes Richard Hillestad.

Oct 30, 2008

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RAND Topic:
Data Science

Topic Synonyms:
Data Bases