These are private, Medicare-funded groups that work with medical providers and seniors in each state to improve the quality and efficiency of health care.

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For persons residing in the latter camp, the profit motive drives competition and innovation that leads to efficient production and quality enhancements in the private sector, and they believe that the same market forces can be harnessed to improve the efficiency and quality of education provision.

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Legitimate entities and enterprises in Eastern Europe that contribute to the genuine transformation of their respective economic and political systems could get access to technology that would greatly improve the quality and efficiency of their manufacturing processes without jeopardizing Western security interests.

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Cardinal Health Inc. is one of the providers of products and services to healthcare providers and manufacturers to help them improve the efficiency and quality of healthcare.

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This makes it easier to discover the best products and improve the quality and efficiency of their lives.

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The investment will not only go towards expanding LTE coverage to new markets but also improve network quality and spectrum efficiency.

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This is meant to improve sound quality and maximum volume, while optimising power efficiency and protecting the driver.

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In selecting such models, the Secretary shall give preference to models that also improve the coordination, quality, and efficiency of health care.

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The Board is specifically encouraged to implement services that better integrate care, promote prevention and wellness, and improve quality and efficiency.

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Within the school system there is plenty of scope for efficiency gains, which should make it possible to improve both the quality and the quantity of education at a fairly modest cost.

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GM, Ford and Chrysler tried to improve: by 2006 they had almost caught up with Japanese standards of efficiency and even quality.

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