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...When TIME visited Copenhagen in March, the EHR evolution was evidently still in progress, with the latest phase focusing on the roll out of telemedicine programs. In the past year, Denmark has piloted two home monitoring programs for patients with diabetes and patients on blood thinning medication - groups that are at high risk of expensive emergency hospitalization. For diabetics, specially trained nurses make home visits to patients with diabetic foot ulcers - which often become infected and lead to amputations. Over a secure video link, the doctor and nurse discuss the ulcers and decide a course of treatment. For patients...
...vulnerability will grow as its command-and-control systems rely ever more on computer networks, those concerns are not new. Some security experts have cautioned against the growing use of "smart grid" technology - which relies even more on computer networks to allow both utilities and individual consumers to monitor and reduce power usage. There are already 2 million smart meters in use in the U.S., and the Obama Administration's 2010 budget includes $4.5 billion in spending on such technology. The fear is that these meters may allow hackers access to the grid's control systems. But smart-grid backers...
Harvard topped yet another ranked list on Thursday—this time it emerged as the most referenced American university in a Global Language Monitor survey of global media sources. In the two years that the Austin, Texas-based research company, has released this data, Harvard has taken the top spot both times. But this year, it managed to edge out Columbia by only 1.03 percent. GLM’s Predictive Quantitative Indicator tracks references of different American universities in global print and electronic media, including the Blogosphere and social media. Schools are viewed as trademarked brands, with...
...needs to buy from an insurer with an excellent credit rating. If any of these ratings are inaccurate or get downgraded, this will dramatically affect the CDS and cause panic. Therefore, the government must institute a reasonable collateral requirement for the sale of CDSs. Further, rating agencies must closely monitor investing schemes that use insurance from highly rated firms like AIG to make risky investments in poorly rated firms...
...says Alan Adler, director of operations for the family-run Streit's, which has been operating out of the same Manhattan location since 1925. Streit's offers every kind of matzo, from unsalted to sundried tomato, although Adler says the Passover-approved matzo - supervised by rabbis holding stopwatches to monitor the 18-minute rule - is still the most popular. "For the bad rap it gets at the holiday as being the bread of affliction, I guess it's still pretty good...