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...Spoiler alert: No.
Read more...Why you should not bank at TD Bank.
Read more...Using laboratory experiments, the column shows that privacy matters, and increases the overall appeal of money.
Read more...Why inherent problems with cryptocurrency liquidity are already leading to consideration of other methods for validating blockchain updates. They are likely to prove unsatisfactory and therefore call for verification by a trusted institution….defeating the rationale for cryptocurrencies.
Read more...Wellie, if the government owns the 5G network, you won’t have any doubt as to who has access to what you did over it.
Read more...Lyft’s prospectus doesn’t even pretend that the company might become profitable, let alone justify a $20-25 billion valuation.
Read more...Penny ante corruption fuels purchases of voting machines in Georgia and Pennsylvania
Read more...Bezos admits he and other squillionaires didn’t do the “heavy lifting” of building the infrastructure on which tech enterprises depend….yet tries to depict a space venture as a greenfield project. Help me.
Read more...Marc Böhlen is part of the team developing universal benchmarks for ethical artificial intelligence (AI). He tells us why they won’t work.
Read more...MP’s new ‘fake news’ report largely ignores other platforms like Google and YouTube, and surveillance capitalism itself – and risks sending regulation in the wrong direction.
Read more...HR 1 will increase the Democrat’s institutional power (and the power of the intelligence community as well).
Read more...It is hard to see how Uber’s IPO story will hold up to scrutiny, particularly at a planned valuation of $120 billion.
Read more...Promoting and rewarding energy efficiency is popular even in conservative states, and is an important way to get the green ball rolling and have some near-term impact.
Read more...Does the testy abandonment of its New York City “HQ2” scheme mean we’ve hit Peak Amazon?
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