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...Sendai, looking warily across the Pacific toward my home country, I shuddered to think America was heading Japan's way. Everyone in Washington knows what problems the nation faces, but there is a Japan-like inability to take the necessary action. The broken U.S. health care system is an embarrassment, yet efforts to change it have been stymied for almost as long as moves to revive Japan's economy. The government's finances are deteriorating as politicians refuse to make the hard decisions on what the country does and does not need. The education system requires far more attention...
...President Obama struggles to pass healthcare reform in the U.S., Europe has worked hard to make health insurance part of "the basic social contract." The human-rights vision of the Council of Europe has also led to the abolition of the death penalty in all 47 member states. It has created monitoring mechanisms, such as our Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhumane or Degrading Treatment. Members of this committee regularly visit prisons or places of detention in all member states to check if governments are ill-treating prisoners or detainees. The Council of Europe campaigns to fight other...
...nearly two years, Google has been offering free accounts at google.com/health that allow users to store, organize and, should they choose to do so, share their health data with a doctor, family member or caregiver. Google Health won't say how many people have signed up (and neither will Microsoft HealthVault, which has a similar product). But it's starting to pick up on the business side.(See how not to get sick...
...March, Google Health said it is teaming with Surescripts, the nation's largest electronic-prescribing network, which connects physicians to major pharmacy chains as well as thousands of independent drugstores--and the insurance plans that cover 65% of U.S. patients. With your consent, your doctor can use this network to pull up your prescription history. Register with Google Health, and you'll be able...
Having access to this information is particularly helpful if you flit among doctors or if you are trying to manage Mom's health when you're in Seattle and she's playing mah-jongg in Miami. Google Health will flag you, for example, if your account has prescriptions for drugs that shouldn't be taken at the same time...