After athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush observed a patient transfer from a hospital to a nursing home, Bush was shocked at the inefficiency of the process, commenting on how the individuals involved typed “the printout from the brand new [electronic medical record] into their EMR, so that their fax server can fax it to the bloody nursing home” (Whitney par. 2). Unfortunately, … [Read more...] about Pick a Card, Any Card: An Examination of Electronic Medical Records and a Proposition of an Alternative Record Storage System
Archives for April 2018
The YouTube Model
YouTube is a subsidiary of Google, and serves as their primary video hosting service. Since its creation in 2006, YouTube has been one of the most popular video websites in the world. At this point, it is undeniably one of the most profitable services on the internet. YouTube is attractive because of the sheer volume of content creators that flock to the site to create their … [Read more...] about The YouTube Model
The Music Industrialist: 2017 Revenue Study
This week, UK-based tech analysis company MIDiA Research released a study demonstrating a $1.4 billion increase in music industry revenue around the world in 2017, a considerable spike that may surprise independent artists making as little as $0.0006 per stream. . As CD and download sales rapidly decline, this growth is largely attributed to the continuing advent of streaming … [Read more...] about The Music Industrialist: 2017 Revenue Study
if the tuna dies, everything else dies, and then the PICs lose their jobs, but we don’t seem to care
Tuna is incredibly and understandably popular. It is the basis of so many yummy and nutritious foods all over the world, ranging, for example in the United States, from tuna salad sandwiches to upscale tuna sushi. Be it from a can or a slab at the sushi counter, tuna has a global appeal, and the demand is only growing. Although new trends in fishing and aquaculture allow more … [Read more...] about if the tuna dies, everything else dies, and then the PICs lose their jobs, but we don’t seem to care
Personal Training Ain’t So Personal by Josephine Kihiu
America’s obesity problem is hardly breaking news. In a 2012 study conducted by State of Obesity, 34.9% of American adults were considered obese or morbidly obese. Regardless of a person’s individual health status, all Americans are thoroughly invested in the health of the nation. The Center of Disease Control research estimates that the national medical care costs of obesity … [Read more...] about Personal Training Ain’t So Personal by Josephine Kihiu