SAVE Award 2011 Ideas

Organizations that have no operational requirement to be located in foreign countries should look to relocate those positions back to the United States or US terrorities. The paradigm that the US Dollar has a strong exchange rate with currencies of Pacific RIM countries driving a low cost of living expense for DoD employee overseas needs to be thrown out. Over the past 5 years the US Dollar has declined and remains... more »

Patient have difficulty understanding, remembering, and following technical, confusing medication instructions, and so may miss, double up on, or otherwise miss-take medications. When patients fail to improve as expected, clinicians may unnecessarily increase, duplicate, or change medications. Resultant poor patient health and avoidable, prolonged, more complicated hospital admissions lead to poor health outcomes and... more »