Abstract: An improved healthcare service includes a patient device adapted to provide interfaces for indicating whether a procedure is inpatient, entering codes and prices for the procedure, asking questions of the patient, create a payment summary, generate a payment, editing procedure descriptions, listing pending procedures and providers that can perform procedures, and displaying prices of services of a selected provider; a doctor device adapted to provide interfaces for displaying a listing of procedures of patients of a doctor; posting the doctor's available services and schedules; editing the doctor's specialty; posting needs for facilities and specialists; viewing incoming requests for services; searching for and communicating with facilities and specialists; and a server adapted to provide databases for storing information communicated between the patient and doctor device, provider information, information regarding diagnosis related groups of procedures, and information regarding procedure pricing; and deter

Abstract: A circuit and method for compensating for the output phase delay of an external clock signal utilizes a phase-locked loop that includes an output port of an integrated circuit device. In the phase-locked loop, a phase detecting circuit compares the external clock signal with an output signal from the output port, producing a phase error signal. The phase error signal is applied to a skew compensator to generate an internal clock signal. The internal clock signal is fed back through the output port to the phase detecting circuit. Clock jitter is reduced by reducing the gain of the skew compensator after a phase lock condition occurs in the compensation circuit.