Word: profitability
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...makes money in ways like this, using cleverly designed "thought bins" that are put into the program by profit-maximizing, code-savvy administrators. EMR can inject more higher-paying codes into our patient contact and squeeze that much more money out of it - quite innocently too. It is, after all, a computer forcing these choices...
...doctors and patients live in a world of painful, pressing questions, the answers might be in there. Or so we thought. Twenty nine years from the night I first sat in a hospital in front of a computer screen the questions persist. And I still don't see the profit-maximizing, cost-controlling physician with his nationwide computer treating patients any better than the great physicians I've known have. With pen and paper, personal commitment to each patient and judgment born of practical experience. None of which I have found in a machine...
...approved for loans. On Dec. 30, the Petroccos sold their townhome to Shan for $197,000 and bought her house for $289,000. The Petroccos now pay $500 more than they used to each month on their mortgage. Shan pays $550 less a month and squirreled away the profit...
...paused and thought for a moment. "Although ... I really thought a real estate investment was the best investment you could make over time," she said, the closest she comes to acknowledging a mistake. Orman owns five homes, although she's not sure she'll make a profit on the last one she bought--a luxury apartment in New York City's Plaza Hotel, which she purchased for $3.6 million in December 2007, at the peak of the market. (At least she paid for it in cash.) (See pictures of modernist houses...
...dialogue or character development. We never learn much about our characters’ backgrounds beyond their immediate relationship with the Camorra—but then again, the Camorra is the main character. Often these characters have typical anti-hero qualities, participating willingly in the mafia’s various profit-making activities. But the film is sympathetic to their stories, humanizing their fears and desperation, especially when sudden cracks of gunfire rip through the thin veneer of stability defining their existence. It impresses upon the audience that, despite its ugliness, this is the only life these characters are offered...