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...ATLANTA Tornado strikes downtown buildings, crowded basketball arena...
Critics often note that electronic records leave sensitive data vulnerable to hackers or system failures. Allscripts customer Dr. Jim Morrow, however, argues his patients' privacy is actually more secure. Morrow is CIO of Atlanta's North Fulton Family Medicine group, whose 11 doctors adopted electronic records in 1998. "With paper, what's to stop the night janitor or front desk clerk from reading your record?" Morrow says. "Our charts all require passwords to limit access." Plus, Morrow adds, with Allscripts, which gives health-care providers online access to records and enables them to automate everyday tasks such as billing, scheduling...
...politics, the most important things almost always go down to the wire. And sometimes past it. Texas, it now appears, will be no exception to that rule. As Jesse Jackson once said as he made his own way to the Atlanta convention in 1988, clinging to nearly 1,000 delegates and stubbornly refusing to give up the fight, "It ain't over till its over. And even then it ain't over...
...John Shoffner, the Atlanta-based neurologist who identified Hannah Poling's mitochondrial disorder, is "genuinely puzzled" by the court's judgment. Shoffner, who has been studying and treating these disorders for 20 years, says it's impossible to say whether Hannah's mitochondrial disorder was, in fact, a pre-existing condition that set the stage for her autism (as the government contends) or if it developed along with her autism. A specialist in mitochondrial disorders, he is investigating the relationship between autism and these disorders and plans to present a paper on the topic at the annual meeting...
Instead of envisioning pipelines running from the Tennessee River to Atlanta, Tennessee official say their counterparts to the south should devote their time and money to conserving water and restricting growth. Moving water from the Tennessee River to Atlanta would not only need approval from Tennessee, but also from federal authorities including the Tennessee Valley Authority, which operates several nuclear power plants on the Tennessee River. Such approval is doubtful, and even if it were forthcoming, the water would then have to be piped over several mountains...