"Repeal Obamacare" is Irresponsible. There are Better Ways to Address the Shortcomings of the Affordable Care Act
The Disease Management Care Blog has decided on two things for the 78 days between now and the midterm elections: 1. It’s not going to drink bottled water. The claim of better taste is questionable and the waste of energy and plastic is atrocious. If the DMCB was worried about the safety of its public [...]
Special issue: ‘From Agent Theory to Agent Implementation 6’ – a selection of contributions
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering 4(2) 2010 The sixth edition of the bi-annual workshop ‘From Agent Theory to Agent Implementation’(AT2AI)) was held at the 7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008) in Estoril, Portugal, 13 May 2008. Using event-driven lightweight DSC-based agents for MAS modelling Implementing reactive BDI agents with [...]
New York Times: Panel Set to Study Safety of Electronic Patient Data
New York Times author Milt Freudenheim has published an interesting article on health IT: “Panel Set to Study Safety of Electronic Patient Data” (Dec. 13, 2010, link) In the article Mr. Freudenheim presents various viewpoints on health IT safety and usability, and reports on an upcoming Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Healthcare IT safety. [...]
Cuba warns that Obama continues U.S. blockade policies
Cuba reiterated yesterday that the United States government has no intentions to change its blockade against the island, nor will they comply with the resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly in that respect. Cuba’s permanent United Nations delegation released a press note entitled “The government of President Obama: continuity with blockade policies.” Source: Granma [...]
Violence against nurses
It seems like we get a search request on this topic every couple of years or so and yesterday’s New York Times has a great piece by David Tuller summarizing recent stats about violence against nurses and workplace prevention strategies — “Nurses Step Up Efforts to Protect Against Attacks” (via The Pump Handle) For more [...]
