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...Obama administration thinks it has discovered a magic bullet in the drive to lower health-care costs: electronic medical records (EMR). Getting the medical profession to switch from manual record-keeping to a national computerized system, boosters argue, will save money, reduce errors, improve quality and transform health care as we know it. President Barack Obama has proposed investing $50 billion over the next five years to help make it happen...
...simply clicks on pyelonephritis, the more serious condition. Or consider that nearly every patient who has a big hip or knee operation will run a fever for a while afterward. No one really knows why. But if a computer picks up the temperature elevation, it could prompt doctors to record a "fever of unknown origin" - a diagnosis that often triggers a bigger payment. EMR can inject more higher-paying codes into our patient contact, squeezing that much more money out of it, and quite innocently too. It is, after all, a computer forcing these choices. (See the most common hospital...
...Shorb, Skidmore College's fast-talking director of student aid and family finance, did more reading than usual this year. And not just because the 4,000 financial-aid applications that landed on his desk made up a record 62% of the applicant pool. Shorb, who has worked in financial aid for 30 years and is halfway through putting his three daughters through college, had also never seen so many personal appeals folded into the files. Setting aside his computer algorithms and thick-buttoned relic of a calculator, he absorbed every typewritten page. One family expected a 50% income drop...
...landings are part of a recent spike in illegal immigration by sea to the San Diego area. In the past five months, federal agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have intercepted 14 boats and made 122 arrests. This year they are on pace to double their record arrest total for 2008. On March 19, a fishing boat was intercepted 33 miles (53 km) off the coast; 21 illegal immigrants were aboard, including a pregnant woman. The jump in sea crossings is mostly due to a clampdown at the land border between Tijuana and San Diego, which has become...
...beginning of the Harvard men’s lacrosse team’s spring break matchups.The No. 13 Crimson clashed with Georgetown yesterday on the Hoyas home Multi-Sport Field, falling to its non-league opponent in overtime, 8-9. This painful loss dropped Harvard’s record to 4-2 (1-0 Ivy.)“The game was hard fought,” said co-captain and defensive standout Max Gotschall. “Unfortunately we didn’t come out on the winning side.”The Crimson constantly switching leads with the Hoyas...