Rather than an electronic ecosystem of information, the nation’s thousands of EHRs largely remain a sprawling, disconnected patchwork. Moreover, the effort has handcuffed health providers to technology they mostly can’t stand and has enriched and empowered the $13-billion-a-year industry that sells it.
Read more...The middle class used to be the bedrock of American institutions. Now its members are coping with an uncertain future.
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Read more...2020 is already in the news. so you might as well start working on your scoresheet!
Read more...Quelle surprise! US trade agreements depend more on the US being a reliable military ally than many like to think.
Read more...Federal prosecutors indicted fifty people yesterday for college admissions fraud at several elite institutions, including Georgetown, Stanford, and Yale. Serious discussion of how college admissions procedures foster inequality is long overdue.
Read more...The latest installment in Justin Mikulka’s excellent series on fracking. The industry continues to promote new and improved saviors – this time, it’s Microsoft – to rescue it from an inconvenient truth: no one’s making any money, despite the high environmental costs incurred.
Read more...Musing on why the level of crude propagandizing known as fake news has gotten worse.
Read more...Another Boeing 737 aircraft crashed minutes after takeoff in Addis Ababa yesterday, killing all 157 passengers on board, in circumstances similar to last October’s Lion Air crash in Indonesia. Consequences for Boeing depend on what the just-recovered voice and data recorders reveal.
Read more...The Green New Deal proposal has exposed widening rifts within the Democratic Party as presidential candidates begin fleshing out their 2020 platforms.
Read more...Why the US might be dumb enough to start a hot war with Iran.
Read more...Bill Black analyzes Brad DeLong’s concession that neoliberals should get out of the way and let the left lead since their coalition with Republicans did not work.
Read more...US counties with convict labor often have lower wage and employment growth
Read more...Evidence increasingly shows that charter schools damage public schools, fueling campaigns to stop charter school growth.
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