Primary care providers still bear the brunt of information collection and distribution (in connection with referrals) to hospitals and other facilities without any financial compensation for the information provided.
The median total cash compensation for chief information officers across all industries was $274,700 in 2002, up from $264,000 in 2001.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the broad reach of insider trading laws, ruling that family and friends of corporate insiders can be prosecuted for profiting on secret stock tips even if they don't pay money or other compensation for the information.
The median compensation package for information-technology managers surveyed in February fell 8percentto to $89,000, from $97,000 a year earlier, according to an Internet poll of 10,000 respondents by the trade magazine InformationWeek.
And just as there have been efforts to develop markets in pollution rights, Kenneth C. Laudon, a professor at New York University's Stern school of business, has proposed a "national information market," intended to give individuals "fair compensation for the use of information about themselves".
This paper aims to scale up the information compensation for the LSGO.
Aside from the benefits for families seeking compensation for occupational disease, this information will enable more rigorous analysis of disease associations related to different exposures during mining processes as well as during employment in different industries unrelated to mining.
While employers typically ask candidates to provide salary information, many don't provide them with any information about compensation for the job or how it's determined within the organization.
It has also started crediting people's accounts with one month of free data service and is considering providing additional compensation for people who lost their information.
