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...Denmark has several inherent advantages that have aided in the early adoption of electronic health records, according to Kenneth Ahrensberg of SDSD, the Danish government body responsible for the development of electronic health records. It is a small country (population: 5 million) with an IT-savvy citizenry. Trust in the federal government is high. Most helpfully, the country's healthcare is run by the public sector. When the country's health service established a National Patient Registry in 1977 - a system that required doctors to file patient visit details to the government health service in order to be reimbursed...
...These systems and others in Denmark are attracting attention from healthcare reform advocates in the United States. A recent study by the nonprofit Commonwealth Fund rated the country's healthcare IT systems as the most efficient in the world, with computerized record keeping saving Danish physicians an average 50 minutes a day of administrative work. "That's essential for our doctors," says Jeff Harris of the American College of Physicians, who points out that U.S. family physicians have the highest administration costs in the developed world and "are already under strain from all the paperwork required to run an office...
...wait to get his hands on the new rifle. "The EXACTO would be revolutionary," he says. "It will more than double our range and probably more than double our accuracy." Current sniper rifles can regularly hit trucks at 2,000 meters, but not bad guys. (The record kill is 2,430 meters, just over 1.5 miles. It was charted by Canadian army corporal Rob Furlong against a Taliban fighter in Afghanistan's Shah-i-kot valley during Operation Anaconda in March 2002 - but his first two shots missed.) "There's no limit as far as I can see so long...
...soup; vitamin sales are up, maybe because you hope you won't need to. Common sense is back in style, meaning we're less willing to buy what we can have for free: bottled-water sales have dropped 10%. The 137-year-old Los Angeles public library system set record highs in circulation and visitors. And film and camera sales have plunged 33% this year, because who would want this winter in their album...
...comedy show on December 29 in Paris, where he honored Robert Faurisson, a French negationist historian. In granting Faurisson a mock award for "unrespectability and insolence" based on the historian's repeated court convictions for denying the Holocaust ever took place, Dieudonné was clearly winking at his own record of anti-Semitic offenses. As part of his homage to Faurisson - and presumably to increase its offensiveness - Dieudonné arranged for an actor dressed as a Jewish concentration camp detainee to come on stage and deliver the decoration. On April 8, French prosecutors announced they would try Dieudonn...