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This electronic hoop you have to jump through was invented in 2000 by a team of programmers at Carnegie Mellon University. Somebody at Yahoo! had gone to them, complaining that criminals were taking advantage of Yahoo! Mail--they were using software to automatically create thousands of e-mail accounts very quickly, then using those accounts to send out spam. The Carnegie Mellon team came back with the CAPTCHA. (It stands for "completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart"; no, the acronym doesn't really fit.) The point of the CAPTCHA is that reading those swirly letters...
With the rest of the world living and working on e-mail and the Web, an electronic health record (EHR) might seem like an obvious step. But it is, in fact, a revolution. American physicians have been notoriously slow to adopt digital record-keeping--only 14% of U.S. medical practices keep electronic records, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. When Harris began Cleveland Clinic's technology push in 1999, the hospital's 1,800 M.D.s were equally resistant to change, he says. "We had to prove that this effort was going to make their job easier...
...team has addressed the thorniest issues in EHRs--patient privacy--with an abundance of caution. In addition to standard confidentiality safeguards, the hospital opens an ongoing e-mail dialogue with patients to give them full disclosure about exactly who has accessed their data. "Some people complain we communicate too often," Lemon says...
...A.R.T. must expand its audience,” Orchard said in an e-mail. “As the number of patrons rises so will the income from ticket sales. Moreover, with an increased audience the A.R.T. will enjoy a larger base of patrons from whom to raise funds. Diane is keenly aware of this need...
...staying in-at least long enough to find out how many supporters will visit her website, e-mail encouragement, and click to help retire her massive campaign debt at www.hillaryclinton.com...