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...advanced though it may be, Denmark's transition to digital records has not been seamless. After the government decided to move away from paper records in 1999, a team of officials came up with a new coding system that required doctors to insert all information and notes in alpha-numerical form. The system was never implemented and eventually abandoned in 2006 after many physicians and nurses complained. Now, instead of one over-arching system, record keeping utilizes various compatible systems, linking networks established by regional health agencies. "What we found is that EHR adoption must be done by evolution rather...
...only American kid in our mountain village, and although I had playmates, who were fairly social, I think still books were a refuge, a contact with the world I knew I had once come from and couldn’t remember. And then when we did move to Maine, it was difficult for me to really be an American kid. I started fourth grade. It was the first time I ever went to a school. I’m sure books went on being a place where I could feel comfortable. But unlike David it wasn?...
...somewhat dismayed, however, that Smith did not discuss the possibility of pay cuts for high-level administrators, even as other universities move in that direction. At Brown University, for instance, President Ruth Simmons is reported to have taken a pay cut of 20 percent whereas at Harvard, salaries of faculty members and high-level officials have merely been frozen. In an economic climate that threatens the livelihood of many staff members, it seems wrong not to at least consider the feasibility of lower pay for senior university officials...
...Holinger adds that while the Extension School officially caps its creative writing courses at 15 students, he tends to admit more than that “because life intervenes, and students’ lives change: they move away unexpectedly, they change jobs, they have a baby—whatever...
...standards, testing, accountability and greater choice. But such doubts were quelled by his pick for Education Secretary: Arne Duncan, who was a cool and driven reformer as CEO of the Chicago public-school system and is also a basketball player from the South Side who knows how to move the ball. Duncan's position on common standards is clear: "If we accomplish one thing in the coming years, it should be to eliminate the extreme variation in standards across America," he says. "I know that talking about standards can make people nervous, but the notion that we have 50 different...