{"id":565,"date":"2004-05-27T20:51:46","date_gmt":"2004-05-27T23:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=565"},"modified":"2004-05-27T20:51:46","modified_gmt":"2004-05-27T23:51:46","slug":"peanuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=565","title":{"rendered":"<em>Peanuts<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>I<\/span> was reading about Bush&#8217;s latest healthcare initiative (no, it&#8217;s nothing about faith-based initiatives this time). Basically he wants to create a &#8216;mid-level&#8217; Health Care IT advisor. Or something to that order. Why? Here&#8217;s what <a href=\"http:\/\/wireservice.wired.com\/wired\/story.asp?section=Breaking&#038;storyId=870705&#038;tw=wn_wire_story\">he says<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<p class=quote>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Docs are still spending a lot of time writing things on paper. And sometimes it&#8217;s difficult to read their handwriting.<br \/>\nSometimes information gets lost. Sometimes people inadvertently prescribe the wrong drug.<br \/>So the fundamental question is: how do we use technology, how do we modernize health care? That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re talking about.\n<\/p>\n<p>100 Million dollars for a project to help the sick and weary to get the <em>right<\/em> prescription. That would help a lot: not so long ago the administration planned to spend 1.5 billion dollars on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headlines04\/0114-03.htm\">&#8216;promoting marriage&#8217;?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading about Bush&#8217;s latest healthcare initiative (no, it&#8217;s nothing about faith-based initiatives this time). Basically he wants to create a &#8216;mid-level&#8217; Health Care IT advisor. Or something to that order. Why? Here&#8217;s what he says: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Docs are still &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=565\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}