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...firm, which will operate under the name Allscripts, will become one of the largest players in the U.S.'s $20 billion electronic health-record industry. In its present form, Allscripts manages data for more than 40,000 American physicians. Once the firm merges with Misys, that figure will treble to 150,000 - or roughly one-third of all practicing doctors in the U.S. It's a level of penetration that could finally lend consistency to the country's electronic health-records industry, which to date has been plagued by thousands of conflicting software systems. Along with cost and privacy concerns...
...room, a hand-picked group of Harvard foreign policy experts balanced their dinner plates on their laps. Weeks before the invasion of Iraq, Summers, then University president, had brought the professors together to discuss the coming war. Summers held court from a couch and directed the conversation. Two professors present at the dinner remember there was widespread skepticism about the reasons the Bush administration had provided for war—but nearly all thought the war would be a success. “In medicine, there’s medical malpractice,” Graham T. Allison...
...always, donations do play a role in funding judges’ campaigns. All too frequently, however, judicial candidates will receive contributions from firms or attorneys who will potentially present cases, or at least play a role, in their prospective courtrooms. Of course, this eventuality would constitute a blatant conflict of interest, and tarnish any presumed objectivity in the judge. Worse, this unfortunate effect is not a matter of speculation, but a reality attested to by many in the justice system: According to a 1999 report, 48 percent of Texas judges and 79 percent of Texas attorneys think that campaign contributions...
This sorry situation calls for immediate reform. It’s atrocious that this web of interests affecting Supreme Court Justices at the state level has been allowed to persist anywhere up to the present day. How can we ever seek justice when its arbiters and their opinions are decided unjustly...
...want to focus on entrepreneurial opportunities in India that are beyond the more traditional opportunities of IT,” said Khaire. “Each of the panelists is an entrepreneur in a different field, and will hopefully shed light on these different sectors and the vast opportunities present there.” The entrepreneurship panel will include a venture capitalist, the CEO of a telecommunications firm, the head of an entertainment company, and the CEO of a legal solutions company—all of whom are Indian and have strong business ties to the subcontinent. Khaire said that...