A 2005 survey found that consumers rank the following issues as the absolute top priorities regarding the attributes of a health information exchange network [ 35]. ▪ The identity of anyone using the system would be carefully confirmed to prevent any unauthorized access or any cases of mistaken identity.
This question also scored as a high priority according to all ranking criteria (top priority with regards to Impact and Lack of Research, second priority with regards to Innovation and Equity).
Without agreement regarding the top priority for allocating scarce resources, planning and implementing an optimal response to either pandemic influenza or a bioterrorist event will be difficult, if not impossible.
"Our top priority is to see to it that police departments do not regard protecting civil rights and controlling crime as two contradictory objectives," Ms. Berry said.
Even after discussion, no option was chosen by >50% of attendees, indicating that this group of professionals did not have a unified opinion regarding what the top priority should be to guide planning and response measures.
Mr. Fine's office found that in the years before the attacks, the F.B.I. devoted "significantly more" resources to traditional law enforcement than to terrorism, even though national security was regarded as its top priority.
Under the plan, which was denounced by environmental groups, the federal agency would focus on listing endangered species it regards as a top priority, while essentially ignoring any new court orders.
Cleaning up the Capitol in Baton Rouge, which Mr. Jindal has promised to make his first order of business, is unlikely to be regarded as a top priority, as it hardly has been in the past, by a Legislature jealous of its perquisites.
To narrow the gap of equity, improvement in the capability of EMS to decrease cerebrovascular, cardiovascular, injury and poisoning cases, should be regarded as a top priority.
Yet the ICM survey finds that only 16% of voters regard this as their top priority.
Maintaining and/or restoring them is a top priority, but nevertheless represents a real conservation challenge, especially regarding their invertebrate assemblages.
