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...cash and airline tickets from an ATM, why not drugs? Two states--California and Virginia--have approved the use of ATM-style kiosks for prescription refills, and Hawaii has okayed them for first orders. Longs Drugs stores in California have already deployed at least four of the machines under a state Board of Pharmacy waiver that allows the dispensing of drugs without a pharmacist present. Pharmacists naturally worry that the kiosks will reduce their contact with customers. And many of those customers are likely to be elderly, say critics, rich targets for drug users looking for an easy score...
...bottom line is that better health care may not happen in the U.S. without better health-care information technology. Sooner or later all of us will probably be carrying around our medical history in a key-ring device or an ATM-type card or maybe even a surgically implanted chip. The benefits could be extraordinary. IBM sees opportunities to apply massive computing power to help doctors make diagnoses and treatment decisions. New standard practices could be communicated to doctors within months rather than 15 years, the current lag between discovery and practice. Pharmaceutical companies with access to anonymous health data...
...aluminum siding, and you can get a three-bedroom ranch house with your hair extensions and a mortgage with your Grilled Stuft Burrito. The stock market may be dragging, but home prices are soaring, fueling a national obsession with real estate. Your house is now your piggy bank, ATM and 401(k). House gawking is a hobby; remodeling, both entertainment and an investment. Folks brag about having bought their home in the '90s the way they used to brag about having bought Microsoft in the '80s. Even if you're not contemplating buying or selling anytime soon, the amazing lift...
which currently has only one ATM in the Square, plans to open a 2,500 square foot branch between CVS and Bank of America later this year...
Then there were the AT&T Wireless execs who were sent on a scavenger hunt and told to use their Mmode location software to find an ATM, a drugstore and a particular kind of Japanese cookie. Almost immediately, Mmode proved too hard to use. One participant broke down and dialed 411, and another called his wife and asked her to Google a location. "They realized their competition wasn't Verizon," says Ideo's Duane Bray, who designed the exercise. "Their competition was real life...