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...surprisingly, nationwide adoption of Electronic Medical Records is being pushed hardest by those who would profit financially from it. The slightly embarrassing financial reality of EMR is that large, mechanized medical operations like hospitals, clinics and big multi-doctor practices stand to make quite a bit of money by adopting them - given our current convoluted system of paying for health care. Two clear factors make EMR a money-winner: improved billing and internal cost control...
...makes billing faster and easier. Why give away that Ace bandage for free? This at least is efficient. But communication the other way, from billing to medical, will take place too. And this is more ominous. The doctor should tell the biller what he found and did. But that EMR program can easily be a very clever, covert way for the biller to tell the doctor what to say he found and did. We don't simply write whatever we want in an electronic chart: we must select from predetermined choices. And these choices offer an open invitation to hyped...
...count toward Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning. “Obviously that’s a course most students are never going to take,” Harris said. “But if we’re going to tell math students, ‘You have to do EMR [Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning], it’s important that we provide a really advanced course.” Since all students will be taking classes in eight generic subject areas—as opposed to courses in the seven out of 11 categories furthest from their concentrations?...
...Obviously that's a course most students are never going to take," Harris said. "But if we're going to tell math students, 'You have to do EMR [Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning], it's important that we provide a really advanced course...
...boost to one group of testing reformers. In San Francisco, U.S. District Court Judge Robert F. Peckham last month ruled that California could not use the common Stanford-Binet IQ test to screen pupils for placement in a special program for the "educable mentally retarded." California's EMR program is 25% black, although blacks make up only 10% of the statewide school population. Even under the improbable assumption that black children have 50% more mental retardation than white children, said Peckham, the EMR enrollment pattern had just one chance in 100,000 of occurring without racial bias...