The NHS needs to create clusters of services to benefit from economies of scale; Britain needs better social care, to prevent ailing oldies clogging up hospitals.
Established with seed funding from the state, Signature Healthcare and the University of Louisville, InnovateLTC fosters marketing and collaboration among companies based here — the corporate hub of the nation's largest cluster of service companies for the aging, with revenue exceeding $44 billion annually.
We investigated potential variations in experience of service users across individual level sociodemographic factors to establish the extent to which any variation in experience was related to "clustering" of service users reporting poorer experience within providers reporting poorer performance overall.
Which sociodemographic/provider characteristics were associated with service users' experience, the extent to which any observed differences could be because of clustering of service users of a particular sociodemographic group within poorer scoring providers, and the extent to which observed differences in experience varied across types of provider.
Complementary characteristics of clusters on service use are displayed in Tables 4 (categorical variables) and 5 (continuous variables).
There are a cluster of services competing for our time and cash.
Ed Vaizey, minister for culture, has implored us to think of libraries as a cluster of services rather than as buildings, which is fair enough, but libraries are also houses for books and documents; as such they are some of the most beautiful built spaces on earth.
Last winter, Singapore-based Bitsmedia launched a new app into the marketplace called Frenzapp that enables users to share their favorite iPhone apps with friends, joining a cluster of services taking on Apple's Genius in the attempt to make app recommendations even better.
Mike Connell founded two IT consultancies that provided a cluster of services to the Bush White House where he worked closely with Karl Rove.
A key contact for AAAASFI is Carlos Enrique Cardenas Rendon, director of a cluster of services for surgery and dentistry in Columbia.
