Medical Records Reach the Age of the Computer
At last, patient documents are becoming paperless; the European Union and Israel are in the middle of a dispute over soldiers sent to stop diplomats from giving aid to Palestinians; meanwhile, Canada could give the U.S. a few tips on how to recover from the worst recession since the Great Depression. These discoveries and more after the jump.
At last, patient documents are becoming paperless; the European Union and Israel are in the middle of a dispute over soldiers sent to stop diplomats from giving aid to Palestinians; meanwhile, Canada could give the U.S. a few tips on how to recover from the worst recession since the Great Depression. These discoveries and more below.
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Patient Care Goes Paperless After decades, electronic medical records are finally becoming more mainstream.
EU-Israel Row Over Confrontation With Diplomat Israel has denounced EU reaction over a confrontation between European Union diplomats delivering humanitarian aid to Palestinians and Israeli soldiers sent to stop them.
What the U.S. Can Learn From Canada’s High-Paying Jobs Recovery As a resident of Toronto often says there are many things the United States can learn from its northern neighbor.
The Machiavellian Genius of Angela Merkel To state the obvious: Angela Merkel, who has just won a third term as German chancellor, isn’t very macho.
Lockup Quotas Help For-Profit Prison Companies Keep Profits High and Prisons Full For-profit prison companies like Corrections Corporation of American and GEO Group are no strangers to controversy.
Take It From an Ex-Journalist: Adapt or Die Somewhere between our group’s discussion of three-year bachelor’s degrees and its deliberation over the value of general-education courses, the sensation swept over me: I’ve seen this before—or at least something close to it. Déjà vu.
Bruce Schneier: NSA Spying Is Making Us Less Safe The security researcher Bruce Schneier, who is now helping the Guardian newspaper review Snowden documents, suggests that more revelations are on the way.
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