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Researchers at the bureau have access to a larger data base and a small databank service from Data Resources Institute (DRI), a publicly-held forecasting firm where Eckstein works half time for half pay. DRI provides the services free as a professional courtesy to economists solving large systems of complicated equations or developing simulation models...
Several people connected with the bureau say both Harvard and the NBER have benefitted from their close relationship. The bureau fosters a community spirit, provides an efficient and effective environment for study, as well as office space, resources and access to other economists. In addition, some say it may be easier to get grant money through the NBER than through an individual application. The bureau, in turn, has at its disposal young and outstanding economists. "Harvard has been very good in facilitating our operation," McLure says...
Horner also believes that Radcliffe's duty to fulfill its first mandate is not over yet. "If equal access to a Harvard education means becoming one of the boys--if it's an end and not a means--then that's not what we want. Radcliffe cannot be absorbed, assimilated or co-opted into the pie, it's got to add another piece to it. And that's an ongoing process...
...release forms as a precondition of treatment. These give the institutions virtually a free hand to distribute information from a patient's files. Nor do the limited restrictions that exist provide much assurance of secrecy. Information can often be ferreted out of computer memories by anyone with access to a terminal. The curious can also enter busy hospital record rooms by simply passing themselves off as doctors. Besides learning about a patient's current ailment, the snoops may pick up potentially damaging items from the past, such as a record of bouts with venereal disease, drug addiction...
Some doctors are afraid that easy access by patients to their records may bring a rash of malpractice suits, but the American Medical Association discounts such fears. Strongly supporting congressional action, many consumer groups and pro fessional organizations like the American Medical Record Association are convinced that without a new law medical privacy stands in mortal jeopardy. In a decision that could have legal repercussions elsewhere, the Colorado Supreme Court in April tossed out indictments against two insurance companies that hired a Denver detective agency that allegedly trained employees to impersonate doctors and bribed hospital personnel to obtain medical records...