you are a fucking idiot if you can't see the difference between a colonial intervention (Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq) and a supportive intervention where the rebels want democracy, have fought hard and made huge gains on their own and with a little air support, can topple their despot on their own and get to work setting up their own government on their own terms.
You're right... it doesn't work like that... here is how it works:
Popular uprising begins in a country, popular uprising controls half the country. Dictator starts rolling over the people who have formed their own democratic government, UN drops a no fly zone over dictator and starts bombing the crap out of their military resources so the rebels can continue to free themselves.
It works a lot better like that than it did the Neo-Con way which wasted over a trillion dollars and over ten thousand lives of US service members.
People are jumping from Centricity Enterprise like a sinking ship. I work in Michigan and every major hospital system in south east Michigan is jumping to EPIC from Centricity Enterprise.
Other nationally renowned hospitals are leaving GE for EPIC (Mayo Clinic for instance)
As for cheaper, the only way IT will make health care cheaper is through more efficiency in care and greater safety which leads to less errors and better outcomes.
As an aside... I have whimsically pondered the notion of creating a software company with buggy crappy software that does something of interest to a hospital and then sell it to them for a million dollars:-)
uh.. Healthcare IT systems increase medical care safety tremendously. There are very bad systems out there (GE), but there are very good systems as well (EPIC).
I have a feeling that GE will be out of the health care software game in the next five years.
HIPPA and HITECH cover more than just protecting data. It covers communication of the data as well, both digital communication and analog communication. it is hard to come up with a test suite for that.
The rail line between Chicago and El Paso is PACKED. why should that line have to stay in San Antonio over night because of freight?
People actually use the rail system we have now... more would use it if the trains had full right of way and did not have to take 20 hour layovers for freight.
a rail system that could travel 150 MPH and hit 5 medium to large cities on its circuit would get used all the time. Traveling to the west coast from New York could take a day and a half in comfort, for half the price of air fair.
Are you aware of the concept of investing in your nation's infrastructure? Lowering traveling costs, increasing traveling efficiencies, increases economic activity and creates MORE money.
As opposed to Iraq where we spent half a trillion on another country, that money is never coming back and we got shit for spending it.
I was listening to TWIL and they had a Libertarian lawyer on who said he agrees with the sentiment that people have about the internet being a right, however, he disagrees with how it is being portrayed as a positive right rather than a negative right.
He would rather see it described as something akin to the freedom of speech (which access to the internet can be considered a subset of) for example:
"The government shall not interferer with the ability of a person to use the internet to communicate in a free and open manor"
As someone who has more suspicion of corporate power than government power (in the US at least), I would also want a regulation that guaranteed the right of customers to access content from any source with equal QOS as any other competing service on the internet.
Maybe you should try understanding what Special Relativity means with respect to the speed of light, events and frames of reference. There is no universal time. When the first instance of an event is recorded that is when the even occurred.
uhh, the health care incentives that are part of ARRA will have moved nearly the entire health system to a completely electronic patient record that has the ability to share data between providers by 2016. I say nearly only because I am sure some providers will not be able to meet the incentives deadline and will start getting penalized for not being there, but with in a few years of the deadline, everyone will have gotten there.
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you are a fucking idiot if you can't see the difference between a colonial intervention (Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq) and a supportive intervention where the rebels want democracy, have fought hard and made huge gains on their own and with a little air support, can topple their despot on their own and get to work setting up their own government on their own terms.
The protesters in China did not control half the country.
You're right... it doesn't work like that... here is how it works:
Popular uprising begins in a country, popular uprising controls half the country. Dictator starts rolling over the people who have formed their own democratic government, UN drops a no fly zone over dictator and starts bombing the crap out of their military resources so the rebels can continue to free themselves.
It works a lot better like that than it did the Neo-Con way which wasted over a trillion dollars and over ten thousand lives of US service members.
Nice job /.
People are jumping from Centricity Enterprise like a sinking ship. I work in Michigan and every major hospital system in south east Michigan is jumping to EPIC from Centricity Enterprise.
Other nationally renowned hospitals are leaving GE for EPIC (Mayo Clinic for instance)
As for cheaper, the only way IT will make health care cheaper is through more efficiency in care and greater safety which leads to less errors and better outcomes.
As an aside... I have whimsically pondered the notion of creating a software company with buggy crappy software that does something of interest to a hospital and then sell it to them for a million dollars :-)
the virtual kind.
uh.. Healthcare IT systems increase medical care safety tremendously. There are very bad systems out there (GE), but there are very good systems as well (EPIC).
I have a feeling that GE will be out of the health care software game in the next five years.
Modern H.I.T. is about safety before anything else. Paper based medicine is very error prone.
for me it is a free add on to a service I already pay for.
Prime is a great deal for a lot of people because of the cheap shipping, now that I can get free movies, it is even better.
PDFs? you can look at a PDF on the kindle but the text is not reflowable so it looks really small and is hard to read.
and some how that is a bad thing? Movies and books are different mediums you know.
HIPPA and HITECH cover more than just protecting data. It covers communication of the data as well, both digital communication and analog communication. it is hard to come up with a test suite for that.
it's not legal.
HIPPA and HITECH make such lack security illegal on systems that hold patient data.
Diversion to helms deep? Did I read a different version of the book than you?
The rail line between Chicago and El Paso is PACKED. why should that line have to stay in San Antonio over night because of freight?
People actually use the rail system we have now... more would use it if the trains had full right of way and did not have to take 20 hour layovers for freight.
a rail system that could travel 150 MPH and hit 5 medium to large cities on its circuit would get used all the time. Traveling to the west coast from New York could take a day and a half in comfort, for half the price of air fair.
shoot... I travel faster than that relative to the photons from my lamp. speed of light baby!
cross country would work too. from the east to Chicago, then to Denver and on to San Fransisco.
a southern rout from Chicago to Kansas city to El Paso to Phoenix to LA
a northern rout Chicago to .... some place up there to Portland or Seattle.
The remainder of the trips people take from their destination stations can be dealt with by car or local light passenger rail systems.
Are you aware of the concept of investing in your nation's infrastructure? Lowering traveling costs, increasing traveling efficiencies, increases economic activity and creates MORE money.
As opposed to Iraq where we spent half a trillion on another country, that money is never coming back and we got shit for spending it.
I was listening to TWIL and they had a Libertarian lawyer on who said he agrees with the sentiment that people have about the internet being a right, however, he disagrees with how it is being portrayed as a positive right rather than a negative right.
He would rather see it described as something akin to the freedom of speech (which access to the internet can be considered a subset of) for example:
"The government shall not interferer with the ability of a person to use the internet to communicate in a free and open manor"
As someone who has more suspicion of corporate power than government power (in the US at least), I would also want a regulation that guaranteed the right of customers to access content from any source with equal QOS as any other competing service on the internet.
Maybe you should try understanding what Special Relativity means with respect to the speed of light, events and frames of reference. There is no universal time. When the first instance of an event is recorded that is when the even occurred.
I don't know what you are talking about. I do know everything.
The star exploded in January, not when the Dinosaur's were around.
uhh, the health care incentives that are part of ARRA will have moved nearly the entire health system to a completely electronic patient record that has the ability to share data between providers by 2016. I say nearly only because I am sure some providers will not be able to meet the incentives deadline and will start getting penalized for not being there, but with in a few years of the deadline, everyone will have gotten there.
When was the last time you were allowed to look through and then pick the scratch off tickets you wanted from a spindle of tickets behind the counter.
While the game is flawed, there is no real way to get only the winners.
you are assuming the universe is spherical in geometry.