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...might seem like an obvious step. But it is, in fact, a revolution. American physicians have been notoriously slow to adopt digital record-keeping--only 14% of U.S. medical practices keep electronic records, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. When Harris began Cleveland Clinic's technology push in 1999, the hospital's 1,800 M.D.s were equally resistant to change, he says. "We had to prove that this effort was going to make their job easier, not harder...
...unsettle presumptions, to defamiliarize the familiar, to reveal what is going on beneath and behind appearances, to disorient young people and to help them find ways to reorient themselves.” To that end, the new program in General Education seeks not only to push students to understand material outside their concentration, but also to provide a curriculum that is “responsive to the conditions of the twenty-first century...
...Summers’ philosophy suggested, the push for collaboration comes with a cost...
...Even with donor interest picking up in recent years, Faust said that the her vice president for development, Tamara E. Rogers ’74, has had to assuage the concerns of school administrators wary of sacrificing their agendas in the push for cross-school gifts...
...drinking, the administration soon decided to abandon negotiation and abolished the fund in a letter posted on the internet. The decision was not only disrespectful of student input, but also deeply flawed. While the cancellation of the Party Fund was intended to stop underage drinking, it will likely merely push the locus of the campus party scene further away from administrative control, while further exacerbating class differences in Harvard social life.The administration’s intransigence was matched only by that of the Undergraduate Council, which angrily protested the decision with heated rhetoric and a refusal to comply. This...