Word: progression
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Congress debates health-care reform, American families are already picking up the tab for universal health coverage. That's the finding of a new report released March 24 by the Center for American Progress (CAP), a Washington-based liberal think tank...
...teaching hospitals and larger hospitals in urban areas - 82% had received additional reimbursement for EHR use, and 75% got financial incentives for adopting the system. It also helped to have adequately trained staff and available tech support, which the authors suggest we'll need more of to make progress - particularly when it comes to the exchange of health information between hospitals. Try getting any two offices in any industry to integrate their computer systems so that all the software can talk to all the other software, and now imagine doing the same thing over a network of thousands of hospitals...
...smothering of dissent, there were always some signs of hope and potential advances on other fronts," says Nicholas Bequelin, a China researcher with the New York-based Human Rights Watch. "But recently the good news has been very few and far between. There has been a total lack of progress on legal reform, the media, rural reform, labor. These issues were very much carrying forward hope for opening up of Chinese society, but now there's just nothing on the horizon." (Read "China Takes on the World...
...pushing Belarus on the need to adopt political reforms. E.U. External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner has noted progress, with the release of political prisoners and registering of NGOs and newspapers. But she also said recently that while the E.U. was looking to "reach out" to Belarus, "for that to happen, we want to see more of the political reforms...
...billion in new federal loans, the company can have a future to talk about. GM isn't planning anything fancy for the meeting - it will be held in Detroit to save travel costs. "The board felt they would be in a better position to give some perspective on the progress we're making on our restructuring," says GM spokeswoman Julie Gibson of the delayed meeting. "We've got a lot going on right...