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...McClellan has made it clear. They are not going to pay the same whether you leave horizontal or vertical," says Dr. Don Rucker, head medical officer of Siemens Medical Solutions, one of a handful of large corporations, including IBM and General Electric, that are betting billions on the market for health-information technology...
...care may not happen in the U.S. without better health-care information technology. Sooner or later all of us will probably be carrying around our medical history in a key-ring device or an ATM-type card or maybe even a surgically implanted chip. The benefits could be extraordinary. IBM sees opportunities to apply massive computing power to help doctors make diagnoses and treatment decisions. New standard practices could be communicated to doctors within months rather than 15 years, the current lag between discovery and practice. Pharmaceutical companies with access to anonymous health data could improve and speed up drug...
...thought more would be accomplished by having American firms push to upgrade things and improve conditions for black workers,” says Vagts, whose daughter protested in favor of divestment while he sat on the ACSR. “If IBM sold its South African investment...nothing would be achieved, because they would probably be bought by someone who was less interested,” in the political consequences of its actions, he adds...
...other resolution would have requested that IBM refrain from selling to the South African government, which was buying three quarters of its computers from IBM and passing many of them on to places such as population control centers, according to an article in The Crimson...
...CCSR, a three-member subcommittee of the Corporation, justified its decisions by stating that the situation in South Africa had not changed significantly since the ACSR’s rejection of the Caterpillar resolution the previous year, and that the IBM resolution would prevent public service institutions like hospitals and schools from receiving important technology...