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...will treble to 150,000 - or roughly one-third of all practicing doctors in the U.S. It's a level of penetration that could finally lend consistency to the country's electronic health-records industry, which to date has been plagued by thousands of conflicting software systems. Along with cost and privacy concerns, doctors often cite this lack of connectivity as a major reason they haven't made the move from paper to digital record-keeping. The Allscripts-Misys agreement could help overcome that barrier. "Our aim is to create the Microsoft Office for health care," Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman...
...records, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. HHS hopes to achieve 50% adoption by 2014, and President Bush has also called for the majority of Americans to have electronic access to such records by that year. Studies consistently show that going digital can reduce health-care costs and help prevent medical mistakes. Each year prescription errors alone kill about 7,000 patients and cost the U.S. health-care system as much as $6 billion. Many of these mistakes could be avoided with electronic records, says Dr. Steve Klasko, vice president of USF Health, an Allscripts customer. Last...
...Allying with several other student groups, including many Christian chaplaincies, HIS coordinated a Fast-A-Thon, where students forewent dining hall fare for a day and donated the marginal cost of their unused board to Save the Children, all the while learning about one of the five pillars of Islam. Any sacrifice entailed by this good deed, thankfully, was ameliorated by a celebratory catered meal enjoyed upon the call to prayer that evening...
...study—“Is there an ‘Emboldenment’ Effect? Evidence from the Insurgency in Iraq”—concludes that “there is a small but measurable cost to open public debate in the form of higher attacks in the short term...
Iyengar said yesterday that this policy change is deeply rooted in a belief formed in Vietnam that “groups motivated by religious goals are fanatical and not taking into consideration cost and incentive...