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...surprisingly, nationwide adoption of Electronic Medical Records is being pushed hardest by those who would profit financially from it. The slightly embarrassing financial reality of EMR is that large, mechanized medical operations like hospitals, clinics and big multi-doctor practices stand to make quite a bit of money by adopting them - given our current convoluted system of paying for health care. Two clear factors make EMR a money-winner: improved billing and internal cost control...
...Take Allied Irish Banks. The country's biggest lender revealed this week that its pretax profit dropped 62% in 2008. The bank's share price slid 90% last year. In any other country, worried customers would already be queuing to withdraw all their money. But so far Ireland has avoided a run on its banks, thanks largely to the government's decision in October to guarantee deposits in six Irish banks, as well as those in five foreign institutions, for two years. The Irish guarantee was heralded in some quarters as a model solution for restoring confidence, with several...
...There's lots of cash that's been tucked away around the world by people whose profit-taking will lift markets after big sell of periods, but that won't change the big picture," Touati says, "Only signs the U.S. has hit bottom and on the rise again will fuel a real rebound of international stock markets...
...When he was still in medical school, he co-founded Partners in Health in 1987—a non-profit organization working to bring medical assistance to the world’s neglected communities—with Paul E. Farmer, who went on to be a fellow professor in his department at the Medical School...
...mere fact HSBC turned a profit despite its troubles was a small ray of light amid an otherwise bleak outlook. New figures covering January showed industrial output falling more than anticipated in the eurozone; joblessness rose from 8.1% in December to 8.2% in January, nearly a full percentage point higher than the same month last year. (Find out 10 things to do with your money...