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Cirrus Aircraft How a Small Plane Crash Looks When Passengers Are About to Survive Rather Than About to Die
Seventeen seconds of video that explain why one brand of small aircraft has become the most popular in the world.
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Reuters The Man Who Thinks He Has Solved the MH370 Mystery
... but hasn't.
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CDC The Electronic-Medical-Records Email of the Day, No. 1
"Just as cars are not all the same, Electronic Medical Records vary greatly. A Mercedes, a Maserati and a Yugo are all cars, but you certainly wouldn't accuse someone of rejecting a used Yugo as being a Luddite and hating all cars. Similarly, you shouldn't generalize physicians who reject terrible programs as hating EMR."
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Wikimedia commons If Doctors Don't Like Electronic Medical Records, Should We Care?
"Yes, there are problems in any technology implementation and there always will be. But fewer people die. Yes, it is important to connect with the patient. But fewer people die. Yes, the opportunity to pad billing is obscene. But fewer people die."
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Heartbleed test site How to Check If a Site Is Safe From 'Heartbleed'
If your site reads Safe, it makes sense to change your password. Even if it doesn't yet, a change still makes sense.
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Heartbleed.com The 5 Things to Do About the New Heartbleed Bug
Should you take the latest security scare seriously? I do, and here are the steps I am taking.
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Society of Hospital Medicine But Seriously Now, Why Do Doctors Still Make You Fill Out Forms on Clipboards?
"Meditative practices emphasize returning to one’s breath. The clinical equivalent of this is to return to one’s patient. "
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Money and Medicine Electronic Medical Records: A Way to Jack up Billings, Put Patients in Control, or Both?
"Digital records are also being aggressively used to maximize patient billings," and other imperfections on the route to a more sensible health care system.
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Wikipedia image The Use and Misuse of Information Technology in Health Care: Several Doctors Reply
One of them writes, "There is a very American tendency to look for technological fixes for significant problems. In general, technological fixes only work in the context of appropriate institutional structures."
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From FlatPanelDr.com On the Ramifications of High-Tech, Big-Data Medical Care
As more of medicine comes into the info age, will we get better sooner? Or simply have a more detailed idea of why we're sick?
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Why You Still Have to Fill Out All Those Paper Forms at a Doctor's Office ...
... and whether that might ever change.
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Now This Is Team Spirit
What the Wright Brothers have wrought.
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Why Do Tech Companies End Up Where They Are?
"You get some clusters, and some stand-alone firms far from anyone else. But rarely anything in-between."
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Landing at the Wrong Airport: Sigh
America is covered with small airfields. Usually that's a plus. But not always.
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Tech Tips for the Day: Gmail Fix, Doo.net
If you really hate the new Gmail compose interface ...
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The Odd Fallibilities of Flight Aware
Technology, our friend and foe: Chapter 3,189.
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Why NSA Surveillance Will Be More Damaging Than You Think
The real threat from terrorism is not the harm it inflicts directly but the over-reaction it provokes. We saw that with the invasion of Iraq. We're seeing it with security-state overreach.
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2 Lithe Little Apps
The chronicles of less-is-more, continued.
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A Man Who Resisted the Security State
"The tech visionaries who predicted that the internet would be revolutionary were correct, but not in the way that they expected."
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Mainly Positive Software News
Technology is our friend, except when it isn't.
