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Wired News: It’s Just the ‘internet’ Now Okay, it’s official: Wired has just declared that the “I” in Internet should no longer be capitalized. No more Web or Net either, just web and net. Wired has spoken!

2004.07.21: HHS Fact Sheet–HIT Report At-A-Glance It looks like there finally is a plan to go forward with EHR—electronic health records—on a nationwide scale. It seems like a good idea, even an inevitability if we’re ever to try to wring the paperwork surcharge out of health care costs (maybe wishful thinking!). Good concept, but the devil is always in the ...

Here’s something that makes sense. The administration’s strategy, presented in a report to be published today, regards the government’s role as one of mainly setting goals and working with the private sector to establish product and technology standards so the computer systems of doctors, hospitals, laboratories, pharmacists and insurers can efficiently communicate and share information. The government, according to the ...

WSJ.com – Coalition Floats Ideas to Tame Rocketing Costs of Health Care It seems that a group of 100 “companies, unions, consumer groups and political leaders called for establishing an independent board to help bring the growth of medical spending in the U.S. to the rate of economic growth in the next five years.” It’s “nonpartisan.” Yeah, right! Sounds like ...