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...being pushed hardest by those who would profit financially from it - not just technology companies but also large hospitals and medical practices hoping to improve billing and control internal costs. With a digital chart, every test, diagnosis and treatment a doctor orders is instantly passed along to the billing side: Why give away that Ace bandage for free? This could make the billing bureaucracy more efficient. But communication the other way, from billing to medical, would take place too. And this is more insidious. In a digital system, doctors can't simply write whatever they want: they generally must select...
...Along with the "stress tests" big banks are conducting under regulators' supervision, the asset sales could move the government farther down the road toward closing or taking over the most troubled banks. The operative word here is could - Geithner and top White House economic adviser Larry Summers have been awfully cagey about what comes next. The more plainspoken Bair allowed that the asset-purchase plan "will be a significant benefit to many banks, but some will be beyond help." Soon we may find out which hopeless banks she's talking about...
...Walked By. In 1992, Harvey debuted much as Maria did, as a young woman from a small town in rural England preceded by reports of otherworldly pipes. Now 39, Harvey's got a catalog of near genius records, largely because she developed a musical and emotional repertoire to go along with her talent. She can throw every punch there...
...corridors there - local police say it has begun to leapfrog the border into Sunbelt cities like Phoenix and Tucson in Arizona and even Atlanta. That has set off political alarm bells in Washington, where earlier this year the Pentagon issued a hyperbolic report that called Mexico a "failed state" along with the likes of Pakistan. Nevertheless, says Bailey, "the general feeling is that the Vandals are at the gate, and we've got to repress them. It's reached a level of moral panic, and it's an issue where the Republicans feel they can hold the Democrats' feet...
...Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agents to help intercept the deluge of assault rifles, automatic pistols and grenades moving south. Until now, the El Paso sector had only seven ATF agents. The Obama plan will also place more federal antidrug and immigration and customs agents along the 2,000-mile-long frontier. Those cops, moreover, will be equipped with new X-ray technologies to detect contraband cash as well as guns...