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What doesn’t stop or even slow down during an recession? Depreciation. Regardless of what we hear on TV in regard to the slowing economy, depreciation still continues. Car breaks and tires ware out, computers break, even educations depreciate as new innovations develop and new skills are required; and yes, even parts of people fall into [...]  Nothing quite describes the realities behind healthcare reform than this little cartoon. Most people when asked about their health care are relatively satisfied, only in general and often abstract areas is healthcare a problem. Is it expensive? Indeed it is, but compared to what? Healthcare is expensive because there are choices today that simply [...] The Stimulus package passing through the Senate yesterday left untouched the nearly 136 pages of proposed legislation for Health Information Technology, over 18% of the immense 752 page document. To be more specific where specifics are rare, I’m referring to the ‘‘Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act” or HITECH Act and its [...] Farmers have known for centuries that if you want to harvest wheat in October, you need to be planting in the spring. If one is otherwise preoccupied and doesn’t get around to it until August, the wheat doesn’t care. It won’t all of a sudden work extra hard to meet an October deadline. In effect, [...] Earlier this month the California Health Care Foundation published Equipped for Efficiency: Improving Nursing Care Through Technology, and in so doing, misses the largest point. The piece provides valuable information in regards to opportunities for improving healthcare efficiency, but doesn’t address the bigger problem: How? How can these or any technology [...] |
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