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Computerized medicine: good for quality, but not costs
Electronic medical records and the general digitization of medical data and practices are promoted as a way to slow the rapidly inflating costs in the US healthcare system. The push for expanded medical IT has come from the top, with President Obama extolling its virtues and his administration making funding for EMR deployments part of its stimulus package. But many have pointed out that simply throwing computers at a problem isn’t a solution unless the software and practices are also in place to allow the medical community to leverage the technology efficiently.
Continue reading »RIAA Jammie case: ‘biggest black eye ever’
p2pnet news view P2P | RIAA:- Why Won’t the RIAA Just Give Up? That’s the headline to a PC World story focusing on the victimisation (our word, not theirs) of Jammie Rasset-Thomas. The Recording Industry Association of ‘America’ won’t give up because it’s owned and controlled by Vivendi Universal (France), Sony (Japan), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (US, but headed up by a Canadian), who, encouraged by the way in which governments around the world instantly bow to their every demand, believe they’re outside the law.
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