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The Skinny on Electronic Medical Records
Sun, May 03, 2009
There’s a $19B silver bullet in the Obama stimulus package that provides incentives for doctors and hospitals to move to Electronic Medical Records and the deal is pretty sweet.
Technology
We live in a world where anyone from anywhere using any device can communicate with anyone in any format instantly. Music, cinema, news, broadcast journalism – there are no sacred cows any more - or so my learned colleagues would have you believe. While other departments take you to the brave new world each month, here we will ask fundamental questions about making the rubber meet the road. Sometimes fun, sometimes painfully mundane, sometimes provocatively off the wall, we will explore the teleology of technology – the art and science of the purpose behind technological advances that keep this industry’s wheels turning, and the bytes flowing through the proverbial pipes.
Less is More - How Digital Trumped Analog
Mon, Mar 23, 2009
When you tap your feet to a Beyonce song, it is easy to forget that her voice went through a long journey before reaching your ears. A single three minute track like “Single Ladies” gets translated into several millions of 0’s and 1’s sitting on a hard drive or an MP3 player, as opposed to a few grooves on a vinyl disk or a few inches of a cassette tape. Why then is the world moving away from analog to digital?