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Unit for electronic payment terminal

Abstract: PURPOSE: To prevent the alteration of electronic money and attain the payment between a bank and a person who offers goods and a service by providing a security function and the transfer function of the electronic money in an unit for an electronic payment terminal. CONSTITUTION: The electronic payment terminal unit has the security function such as the check for the legality of an IC card, the check or a password number for a personal certification in the IC card for the payment of a charge by the IC card for the electronic money by as user and the function for transmitting using information such as the abatement of the electronic money in the IC card or shopping information. Further at the time of the completion of an operation, the receiver IP of the electronic money has an automatic communication function with an accounting center of the bank or the like for requesting the electronic money paid from the user for the issuer for the electronic money (bank or the like) and a security response function with the issuer for the electronic money. COPYRIGHT: (C)1987,JPO&Japio

A New Approach to Capital Payment In a Competitive Era

Abstract: Prologue: One important item on the health agenda of the new Congress will be the formulation of a policy to prospectively pay hospitals for the Medicare portion of their capital costs. When the Medicare prospective payment system was signed into law in 1983, Congress delayed its decision on how to fund capital costs until it could research the issue more fully. Now, with the October 1987 deadline for determining a capital payment policy around the corner, discussion of capital issues has been active among the health policy community. In this article, Jonathan Betz Brown analyzes the thought behind the various flat-rate capital payment proposals under consideration, asserting that while they look simple and effective, they probably are not. Additionally, they “will get us into deep trouble in the long run,” he argues. The author then presents a new approach to capital payment that has emerged from a three-and-a-half-year study by the Harvard Health Capital Project. This proposal of “planned payment” looks...