| Thu, 19 Jul 2007 | | Hospitals & Health Networks Most Wired Magazine, a publication of the American Hospital Association, released its annual list of the "100 most wired hospitals and health systems" in July. Listed below are the 25 organizations that did not appear on the top 100 list but improved the most from 2005 to 2006. | | More information |
| Thu, 19 Jul 2007 | | The annual Hospitals & Health Networks' Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study asks hospitals to report on their use of information technology in five key areas: business processes, customer service, safety and quality, workforce, and public health and safety. The following activities are evaluated for naming hospitals and health systems to the list: | | More information |
| Thu, 19 Jul 2007 | | Hospitals & Health Networks Most Wired Magazine, a publication of the American Hospital Association, released its annual list of the "100 most wired hospitals and health systems" in July. | | More information |
| Thu, 19 Jul 2007 | | Ditching paper and automating processes won't automatically enable a hospital to cure what ails you, but it could help healthcare providers do their jobs more efficiently, accurately, and safely. | | More information |
| Thu, 19 Jul 2007 | | Hospitals & Health Networks Most Wired Magazine, a publication of the American Hospital Association, released its annual list of the "100 most wired hospitals and health systems" in July. Listed below are the 25 organizations that scored highest on the survey questions focused on wireless applications. | | More information |
| Wed, 18 Jul 2007 | | Think sticking to a diet is hard? Try studying one. Everyone is interested in whether different foods or nutrients affect our odds of getting diseases like cancer or of developing risk factors for those diseases, such as too much weight or high blood pressure. But there are many barriers to studying dietary change, which is why we still have no easy answers to the question of what, exactly, we should eat to be at our healthiest. It's also why you can be forgiven for often feeling whipsawed by headlines: Is coffee good or bad? What about alcohol, garlic, or chocolate? | | More information |
| Tue, 17 Jul 2007 | | Traumatic happenings, like losing a house in a hurricane or suffering through a divorce, can sometimes trigger the same array of symptoms associated with clinical depression. Insomnia. Weight loss. Exhaustion and feelings of worthlessness. Thoughts of suicide. As a result, doctors may not always successfully distinguish between normal sadness and actual depression?especially during a quickie 10-minute physical. "It takes a while to explore the origins of sadness, whereas writing a prescription takes two minutes," says Ellen McGrath, a psychologist at the Bridge Coaching Institute in New York and author of When Feeling Sad Is Good. | | More information |
| Tue, 17 Jul 2007 | | People who've had long lives presumably hold keys to good health, and the rest of us might do well to learn from them. That's why Thomas Perls, a geriatrician at the Boston University Medical School, studies centenarians?people who've been kicking for a century or more. As head of the New England Centenarian Study, the world's largest study of such people, Perls has researched the habits, genes, and medical histories of about 900 centenarians. Perls thinks centenarians offer an unparalleled look into how we can all age gracefully, healthfully, and happily. | | More information |
| Tue, 17 Jul 2007 | | You don't have to stage benefit concerts on seven continents to do your part in the fight against global warming. You don't need Madonna. You don't even need Al Gore. In fact, less is often more when it comes to protecting Mother Earth. Less consumption. Less energy. Less waste. Global warming is an enormously complicated challenge, and to defeat it will require unprecedented cooperation among oft-feuding nations and a forbiddingly complex overhaul of the world's energy production and delivery systems. But that doesn't mean that doing your part has to be difficult. Or even terribly inconvenient. Let the policymakers argue over cap-and-trade bills, carbon taxes, and the fact that wind power currently generates just .7 percent of the country's electricity. The inconvenient truth is there are plenty of ways for individuals to make a difference. Let us count the ways. | | More information |
| Tue, 17 Jul 2007 | | It's often said that stocks like to climb a wall of worry. But forget climbing–this bull market is taking a high-speed elevator straight to the top. | | More information |
| Tue, 17 Jul 2007 | | Backstage at Lincoln Center, stagehand Adam Lewis was multitasking. Fiddling with a soundboard, he was also trying to grab the attention of his new favorite food celebrities in the green room. "This is going right up there next to Beyoncé and Metallica," said Lewis, clutching his official 20th Anniversary James Beard Awards program, covered with autographs from chefs like Bobby Flay of Boy Meets Grill. Lewis is fascinated with the Southwest-spiced Flay and the other personalities who pepper the Food Network: "These people are on the money." | | More information |
| Tue, 17 Jul 2007 | | The failure of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to win legislative approval for his controversial plan to reduce Manhattan traffic highlights the long odds of making tolling a significant component of battling gridlock nationwide. | | More information |
| Wed, 18 Jul 2007 | | CHICAGO?Everyone should pay less attention to national polls and focus instead on grass-roots enthusiasm, numbers of campaign contributors, and the early nominating states of Iowa and New Hampshire, say Barack Obama's senior strategists. | | More information |
| Wed, 18 Jul 2007 | | Six years into President Bush's "war on terror," the U.S. intelligence community is warning that the al Qaeda terrorist network continues to be "a persistent and evolving" threat. "This threat is driven by an undiminished intent to attack the United States homeland," National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell said Tuesday. | | More information |
| Tue, 17 Jul 2007 | | One Vote '08, the national campaign to make poverty a campaign issue in the 2008 presidential election, will spend $30 million in the four earliest primary and caucus states: Nevada, Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given the effort, begun with the help of U2's Bono, a $22 million grant. Campaign organizers say that amount is the "minimum" for the campaign, making it surely one of the biggest issue campaigns thus far announced for the 2008 election cycle. | | More information |
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