Word: complexity
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...Medical-Billing Industry It costs a typical doctor about 10%, right off the top, to collect fees from the HMOs and other insurance companies he or she has to deal with. This is due to the ultra-complex set of rules and regulations those companies have established to "control costs" (read: to pay us less while their executives take home more) and the billing staffs we have to hire to deal with them. This money does nothing for patients; it's a health-care expense that produces no health care. It could easily be eliminated with simple, intelligent, centralized payment...
Computerizing Everything It's a complex topic that boils down to this: If we who do the medicine thought more computers would save us money, we'd buy them ourselves. In fact, sometimes we do. But the federal mandate to computerize and centrally connect the entire country's medical records has little chance of saving money for anyone except the lucky insiders who sell the computers, software and support. Aside from their costs to us, electronic records are time-consuming - a constant distraction from patient care. They also put doctors on a slippery ethical slope; it's pretty easy...
...group of Harvard and MIT affiliates are suing the developers of their planned residential community for preventing them from moving into an apartment complex in Kendall Square. Though the affiliates have already submitted their deposits, they allege that the developers have failed to take the necessary steps towards reaching a final closing date. The plaintiffs—a dozen current and former faculty members who have put down initial deposits for units in 303 Third Street—are part of an independent project known as “University Residential Communities” that has sought to create...
...achieved by the advancement of technology than by institutional change of health systems in different countries. He spoke about incorporating technology into health care systems in developing nations, stressing the importance of starting by introducing basic technologies—like cell phones—before moving on to more complex equipment, like MRI scanners. “Teach people, then teach them a little bit more,” he said. Zucker engaged his audience with his energy and stories from his personal experience, one of which involved saving the life of a 14-year-old on the way home...
...stabilization of Afghanistan and Pakistan, the eradication of the Taliban and the drug trade, and a positive role for India, a fellow democracy that has proven to be a reliable partner since the bilateral nuclear treaty of 2006. Only a comprehensive South Asian agenda that takes all of these complex variables into account has any chance of permanently resolving the core issues at stake...