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...also get a taste of the new medicine. The same companies are helping providers launch their own so-called physician portals, which allow patients to make appointments, send secure e-mail to doctors and view their own charts and lab results. As part of a pilot project in Silicon Valley, insurers for a group of companies, including Oracle and Cisco, will soon reimburse doctors for certain e-mail consultations. At the end of the trail, WebMD's goal of online, real-time insurance-eligibility checks and claims adjudication is very slowly starting to become a reality...
Current top-down methods of chip production use electron beam lithography, an expensive process that involves etching silicon into smaller and smaller pieces. Such methods will eventually hit a limit at which further miniaturization would entail extreme expense...
Making the basic units of a microchip in nanoscale is challenging in itself. The Lieber group has used nanowires made of silicon with added chemical impurities that allow the material to conduct some electricity...
Ravi Desai admits he's a lousy poet. But he's pretty good at spinning tales. The 31-year-old Harvard graduate talks like the Robin Hood of Silicon Valley, promising to shower info-tech lucre on cash-strapped creative-writing programs across the land. "We need to support the soul as well as the mind," he croons from a two-man consulting firm in Menlo Park, Calif. What Desai actually delivers, however, is a parable about the perils of falling for a dotcom dreamer...
...officials of the Community Foundation Silicon Valley, where contributions this year have been running 50% behind the year-ago pace. The foundation suffered major setbacks when the Web portal AltaVista, which had pledged 25,000 IPO shares, postponed the offering last April and then abandoned it altogether in January in the midst of an ice-cold market and following several rounds of layoffs...