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...West Coast, at San Diego-based Scripps Health, a new IDX system helps give doctors remote access to comprehensive digital records, CT scans, X rays and lab tests. "Over the next five years, we'll be the rule, not the exception," says Chris Van Gorder, Scripps CEO. "Patients, doctors, employers and the government are going to demand...
Consumers may also get a taste of the new medicine. The same companies are helping providers launch their own so-called physician portals, which allow patients to make appointments, send secure e-mail to doctors and view their own charts and lab results. As part of a pilot project in Silicon Valley, insurers for a group of companies, including Oracle and Cisco, will soon reimburse doctors for certain e-mail consultations. At the end of the trail, WebMD's goal of online, real-time insurance-eligibility checks and claims adjudication is very slowly starting to become a reality...
...Never, ever, browse porn sites in a public computer lab. There are just too many damn pop-up windows. You can ALT-TAB all you want, but hiding a desktop filled with blinking pictures of naked flesh will be even harder than what’s going on down below...
...danger is that while the lab geeks are perfecting the handsets consumers will find other technologies that suit them just fine, allowing them to put off taking the plunge on 3G until a 4G comes along. John Moroney of Ovum, a consultancy specializing in telecoms, expects it could take five years before 3G becomes a serious consumer business. "There's already an existing good alternative: second generation voice plus sms text messaging," Moroney observes. Then there's so-called 2.5G, which transmits data in a similar fashion to UMTS, but with more limited bandwidth. The innovative Japanese operator...
...educators fear, will be a widening chasm between a few richly endowed institutions able to buy the very best applicants and a growing legion of poorer colleges, public and private, forced to use scarce money to attract good students--money that might be better spent on a new science lab or faculty salaries, as well as on scholarships for the needy. Says Professor Gordon Winston, co-founder of the Project on the Economics of Higher Education at Williams College: "We're going to be using up these resources on the rich kids and not have any left over...