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Technology has also helped Geisinger hold down costs while making doctors' lives easier. Geisinger began installing electronic health-records systems in 1996 and since then has invested about $120 million in wiring its sites. On a recent morning, Dr. Nancy Grauso-Eby, a pediatrician working on the Danville campus, opened...
While you might not need a computer to tell you that an 80-lb. 4-year-old needs to lose weight, it helps when the same system also warns about a food or drug allergy or a missed measles vaccination. When a child Grauso-Eby treats goes to see a...
He was interviewed by author Tom Perrotta ("Election," "The Abstinence Teacher"), who taught him once when Hodgman was at Yale. Despite his low-caliber education, Hodgman has enjoyed much success as a writer, literary agent and personification of a computer since his graduation in 1994.
The couple live in a drafty unfinished house with no hot water. "I haven't had a hot water heater since 1970," she says. It also has no septic system (they use an outhouse, even in the bitter Maine winters) and has only a wood stove for heat. It goes...
The structure of the program has less tangible, but still important, benefits to children beyond the fact that it grants them access to technological literacy. Providing children with laptops of their own gives them a sense of agency that simply cannot be achieved through computer labs or computer classes alone...