That said, less than 10 percent of Americans appear to be using electronic
medical records, with almost half saying they're not even clear if their doctor
actually offers access, according to a Harris
Interactive/HealthDay survey of more than 2,000 American adults
blacks and Hispanics were only half as likely to sign up for personal health
record access compared with white patients, the authors noted, and the
wealthiest patients were 14 percent more likely to initiate personal health
record use than the poorest patients.
Older patients, between the
ages of 51 and 65, constituted the largest slice of the high-user group, they
found, accounting for four in 10 among such patients.
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Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation—and
facilitating unsettling new kinds of control
Video chat is an idea that has been around for a while, but not until recently was it actually possible on a large scale. Now people can talk to each other as if they are in the same room through their televisions, and do it everyday if they want to.
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tand the pedagogy of the adult
learner. To use the online tools effectively,
instructors must be familiar with the technology
available to them as well as how to use it. This
paper describes effective andragogical methods for
adult instruction. It will also present the
available tools and the method and reason for using
them. By reviewing the research of current methods
of instruction, a road map to course design will be
recommended. There are effective techniques to
ture,
discussion, lab, and practice. They move the course
to the online environment using the same