Word: progressives
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...When TIME visited Copenhagen in March, the EHR evolution was evidently still in progress, with the latest phase focusing on the roll out of telemedicine programs. In the past year, Denmark has piloted two home monitoring programs for patients with diabetes and patients on blood thinning medication - groups that are at high risk of expensive emergency hospitalization. For diabetics, specially trained nurses make home visits to patients with diabetic foot ulcers - which often become infected and lead to amputations. Over a secure video link, the doctor and nurse discuss the ulcers and decide a course of treatment. For patients...
...board, a group of administrators and faculty that evaluates students who violate a major school rule, has been a pressing student concern for many years. With the near-completion of the Ad Board Review Committee’s report, we are closer than ever to seeing meaningful progress. However, in order for reform to go through, the faculty must approve many of the changes the report proposes. And, unless the report comes out soon, it will not be ready in time for the upcoming meeting of the Faculty Council’s Docket Committee, effectively blocking it from being addressed...
...team. As a friend, I am even more grateful to have her there.”Merritt’s hip injury has been with her since the eighth grade, and her allergies have been with her since she was only seven years old. Learning how to cope and progress with these ailments have been crucial in her success as a collegiate athlete.In spite of her many ailments, Merritt claims the school record in both the 100 meters, at 11.82 seconds, and the 4x100 meter relay, her two favorite events. She also picked up the Pappy Hunt Award her sophomore...
...past 20 years as Mexico oriented itself to the outside world, joined the World Trade Organization and signed the North American Free Trade Agreement with the U.S. and Canada. Even in the first years of this decade, when the shift of global manufacturing to China threatened to derail Mexican progress, the economy held its own. Politically, the election of the conservative Vicente Fox as President in 2000 - a mere 12 years after the PRI almost certainly stole the presidency from Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, the candidate of the left - marked a decisive break with the past and signaled...
...Mexico is not perfect, God knows, but what country is? The political and economic progress it has made compares well with that of nations that are frequently held up as exemplars of modernization. In development stars such as South Korea and Thailand, political convulsions have demonstrated that economic growth on its own does not make for prosperity and stability. To be sure, Mexico has not seen the modernization on all fronts that Spain experienced in the years after the end of Franco's dictatorship, but Spain's progress was much helped by the country's early accession to the European...