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Managed Care October 2002 Joyce Ochs	Decision Support Made Practical Making all the necessary information easily accessible is the motivation behind today's decision-support products. Most of them are called clinical information systems or primary care information systems and are designed for practicing physicians.
Managed Care October 2002 Pamela L. Popp	How To -- And Not To -- Disclose Medical Errors to Patients Health care facilities and physician practices must commence development and implementation of a disclosure policy. The policy should include a statement of the need and willingness of the patient and physician to have an open and honest relationship and a constant dialogue.
Managed Care October 2002	Survey: '90s Boom Didn't Increase Number of Covered Employees You would think that the roaring economy and tight labor market in the 1990s would have meant a significant increase in the number of people with employer-sponsored health insurance. But you would be wrong, according to a report by the Center for Studying Health System Change.
IndustryWeek November 1, 2002 Tonya Vinas	Questioning Biotech's Benefits While most communities are investing to attract or grow biotechnology companies, a recent report concludes that only a handful of cities will benefit in the long run.
Knowledge@Wharton	Encouraging the Development of Drugs for Poor, not Just Rich, Nations The current system rewards research into diseases that afflict rich countries, but creating new medicines for the rest of the world and finding ways to pay for them will demand new partnerships, according to panelists at the recent conference "Pharmaceutical Innovation in a Global Economy."
Fast Company November 2002 Keith H. Hammonds	Harry Kraemer's Moment of Truth In an era when the business section read like the police blotter, the CEO of medical products and pharmaceutical company Baxter International faced a tough ethical dilemma. And he did something noteworthy: He actually did the right thing.
CIO October 15, 2002 Stephanie Overby	They Want a New Drug In the race to develop new pharmaceuticals more quickly, companies are introducing new IT tools. But the tools can't do it alone. CIOs need to change the way people do their work.
Bio-IT World October 9, 2002 Malorye Branca	The Path to Personalized Medicine The tactics have changed, sometimes dramatically, but hints of the promise of pharmacogenomics are finally starting to trickle in from studies of asthma, cancer, and drug response.
Bio-IT World October 9, 2002 Salvatore Salamone	Apple's Life Science Efforts on verge of bearing fruit After years of rejection by IT staffs, Apple wins support with the Xserve and Unix-based OS
Bio-IT World October 9, 2002 John Dodge	Dell's Simple Formula for Life Sciences Coming off a gangbuster third quarter that yielded a $50-million profit versus a $101-million loss a year ago, Dell Computer Corp. is finally starting to talk publicly about the life sciences.
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