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...sleek-looking, 88-bed, for-profit hospital, which opened in February, uses more than 650 computer stations made by GE Medical Systems to store records, test data and diagnostic images. Bedside terminals are intended to make patient care swifter and more customized--and safer, with mandatory bar-code scanning to cut the chance of a drug mix-up. Of course, the "paperless office" has been touted for years and has seldom materialized. But the hospital says its goals will be met if it can boost productivity...
...panel brought in people such as Richard Jerue, an executive at the for-profit Education Management Corporation, which operates art and cooking schools. Jerue suggested that “quality and accountability” are ways to assure that tax dollars do not go to waste. Future plans to hold universities accountable for their spending would be tied to “Institutional Report Cards,” which would list “tangible information” such as job-placement rates, average starting salaries, graduate- and professional-school admission rates, passage rates for certification exams, and alumni/student satisfaction...
Senior Class Treasurer Rudrabhishek Sahay ’03, who is also a Crimson editor, said that the flyer would make clear that the video is a for-profit venture supported by the senior class...
Ryan, now 43, incorporated WorldWIT as a for-profit business two years ago and started selling ads. Clients include Sun Microsystems and Deloitte & Touche, and Ryan says that WorldWIT broke even last year on revenue of about $150,000. Affiliates, from a newsletter service to a computer-training firm, pay WorldWIT for transactions conducted via the lists...
...senior class video is a for-profit venture run by three members of the senior class: Cornish, James C. Harrington ’03 and Luke R. Long ’03, who is also a class marshal and a member...