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...hospitals as cathedrals of science, yet doctors walk around with their pockets stuffed with 3-by-5 cards on which they write patient information; when they sign off for the day they read from the card to the doctor coming on duty. "My pizza parlor is more thoroughly computerized than most of health care," says Berwick. It's easy to see the advantage of giving everyone easy access to a patient's history and test results. But getting there can be painful. Enter a hospital when it is in the process of introducing more computers, they...
...introduction of computerized patient information and medication orders is meant to reduce "adverse drug events" and ensure that the patient's history and treatment notes are available to everyone who needs them. But progress does not always equal safety. "Technology should remove the burden, but you can get problems. You can hide behind technology and spend more time talking to your computer than to your patients," says Dr. Albert Wu, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins. "And as with any new thing, people screw things up worse before they make things better." Doctors say there is a temptation...
At the orphanage, nestled behind a 10-ft. wall on the breezy banks of the Tigris, Safah can take computer classes, practice sewing and paint portraits of the family she wishes she had. But she doesn't feel as safe as she used to there. A social worker tells her...
With the flurry of investment in the north, should anyone be feeling sorry for the south? Hardly. Last month, Intel, the world's biggest maker of computer microprocessors, announced plans to construct a $300 million chip-assembly and testing facility in Saigon. North or south, there appears to be plenty...
“Ars longa, vita brevis,”—life is short, art long—runs the ancient proverb. Ask artist Peter Smuts, whose show “The Human Pixel Project” is currently showing at Mather’s Three Columns Gallery...