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...overall budget, Bush - through Dick Cheney - had unsheathed his veto pen when it came to any increases in discretionary spending beyond 4 percent. Now (and this is the sort of newfound flexibility that goes with a shrinking tax cut) Bush told CNN that he's "keeping all options open...
...Kokomo Family Care, a clinic in Kokomo, Ind., many doctors no longer reach for a pen to write prescriptions or notes. Instead, they use a computer and software from McKesson HBOC, which have started to siphon away the sea of paperwork the small practice has been drowning in. Not only is there less chance of medication foulups or misplaced records, but the clinic has dropped nine employees whose sole job was taking care of paper--instead of patients...
...government is trying to accomplish what some of America's best entrepreneurs have failed to do so far--successfully apply the Internet treatment to the bureaucratic hernia that is health care. No other major business relies so heavily--and so inefficiently--on old-fashioned pen and paper. But health care doesn't have much spare change to spend on information technology, and the outdated systems that have been installed over the years have only made doctors more skeptical of tech's miracle cures. Billions have been lost trying to use the Net to cut the estimated $250 billion in administrative...
...avoidable deaths caused by medical errors. Last month the I.O.M. followed that up with a more sweeping indictment of the sorry state of IT in hospitals and doctors' offices. California has passed a bill requiring many hospitals to install technology by 2005 that will help reduce medication errors. "The pen," says Neal Patterson, chairman of health-IT veteran Cerner, "is the most dangerous, wasteful medical device...
...weather improves, we should raise our heads from our books and set aside pen and paper, if only for a little bit. It is time to go outside and play in the Yard. Harvard students may well have no peers in terms of physics equations or literary essays, but they need to work just as hard to enjoy themselves outside the classroom...