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...sleek-looking, 88-bed, for-profit hospital, which opened in February, uses more than 650 computer stations made by GE Medical Systems to store records, test data and diagnostic images. Bedside terminals are intended to make patient care swifter and more customized--and safer, with mandatory bar-code scanning to cut the chance of a drug mix-up. Of course, the "paperless office" has been touted for years and has seldom materialized. But the hospital says its goals will be met if it can boost productivity...
...Barrel. (The family separately owns the Spiegel catalog group, which includes Spiegel, Eddie Bauer and Newport News, an online women's-clothing retailer.) Otto has also invested heavily in technology, including e-commerce, to improve efficiency, cut costs and reach out to customers. Last year the company turned a profit for the first time on its online sales, which reached $1.9 billion. Otto boasts that it's the second largest Internet retailer after Amazon.com The advantages of running a closely held family company are that "I can always think long term and not have to look at short-term profits...
...under Catholic doctrine, and the Church may certainly discourage use among its followers. However, the Church’s influence over the health care system gives them far greater powers to limit the rights of non-Catholic women. The Catholic Church operates 10 of the 20 largest not-for-profit hospital systems in the U.S. In some communities, a Catholic hospital is the only option. Because of the short window of opportunity, giving Catholic hospitals the right to limit information about EC essentially gives them the power to deny women their right to this option. However, unless new EC legislation...
More than 600 three-person teams worldwide participated in the annual contest, which the non-profit Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications ran early last month...
...this war’s wake, the Bush administration has planned to contract Iraq’s rebuilding to private, exclusively American corporations—including a subsidiary of Vice President Dick Cheney’s very own Halliburton. Experienced non-profit and international organizations will largely be bypassed. Judging on how it has reneged on most of its commitments to liberated Afghanistan, the U.S.’s pledge to fund Iraq’s rebuilding and help alleviate its current humanitarian crisis is dubious at best. We should not let ourselves be duped again by public-relations farces...