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...long overdue) Holocaust memorial, made his country No. 1 in world exports and opposed the war in Iraq. In my view, not a bad record at all for seven years in office, and a pretty difficult act to follow! Martin Sauter Paris Normally, Germans are a sedate and patient people. It took 16 years to get sick of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, but here we are, already tired of Schröder after seven years. Kohl's shoes were simply too big for Schröder to fill. If there had been no catastrophic flooding in August 2002 and if Bush...
...McClellan, former head of the FDA and now director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is making paperless medicine mandatory for physicians who want to participate in the agency's potentially remunerative pay-for-performance scheme. The aim, sensibly enough, is to pay doctors for keeping their patients healthy, as opposed to the current fee-for-service basis that simply rewards patient throughput. A priority for McClellan is to improve the treatment of diabetes and other chronic diseases, which absorb a disproportionate amount of health-care dollars. That requires better data collection--uploading and monitoring information from glucose...
There are risks involved in computerizing anything, of course. Privacy advocates are especially concerned that once patient records are online, it will be that much easier for sensitive information to fall into the hands of, say, insurance companies or potential employers. "It's not about being scared of technology; it's about the appropriate safeguards," says Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. To Rotenberg, the push to automate is running way ahead of the legal protections. Even Newt Gingrich, a longtime champion of health-care reform, sees the need for updated legislation to protect medical privacy...
...RHIOs are operating, some 500 locally controlled information networks are being built, and the Clinton-Frist bill would put money on the table to help get more of them up and running. In New York's Hudson Valley, the Taconic Health Information Network and Community serves 600,000 patients along with area doctors, hospitals, labs, pharmacies, insurers, employers and consumers. If a resident makes an emergency-room visit on a Saturday, the ER doc can pull the patient's records from his personal physician...
...problem can be helped just so much by progressive state governments such as California's. The blame lies solely with the man in the White House, who seems to value the life of cells a few days old more than that of an 80-year-old Alzheimer's patient. George W. Bush is an idiot. Chris Antolik Baltimore, Maryland...