Medicare\u27s August Rule: Necessary Step Toward Minimizing Federal Spending or Overbroad Decision Leading to Higher Malpractice Costs?

Recently, the federal agency that administers Medicare decided that, beginning in 2008, Medicare will no longer pay for certain patient conditions acquired in the hospital that are deemed preventable. Patient safety advocates support this pronouncement because it gives health care providers an additional reason to avoid the occurrence of these conditions. Some physicians, however, believe that the decision was too overbroad because of its inclusion of certain infections and bedsores that are not always preventable for all patients. Because some conditions involved are not preventable, the occurrence of a condition should be presented in the same manner as other evidence in a malpractice case, through expert testimony

Making Cultural Heritage Artifacts into 3D Digital Objects Using Photogrammetry : Final Report

The project Making Cultural Heritage Artifacts into 3D Digital Objects Using Photogrammetry aimed to demonstrate that the conversion of analog materials into 3D digital objects is possible with the use of affordable equipment and the use of open source platforms for processing and editing. Our gratitude is with the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI), who supported our project with the necessary funding through the 2019 PALNI Innovation Grant. With the generosity and support of PALNI this project was able to succeed and Butler University Libraries and the Center for Academic Technology is happy to report on our success, challenges, and lessons learned