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A physician and medical informatics specialist brings forward the belief that standard IT techniques, as applied to Healthcare Information Systems, Problems created by lack of scientific rigor in a cross disciplinary, exploratory field such as HIT, which should be guided by the most rigorous scientific principles, are increasing in scope and severity. In fact, I believe medicine is suffering an unhelpful “cross occupational invasion” by the IT industry, with the IT industry’s best interests as the primary driver, not medicine’s... Ominously, there is a lot of advantage to be had with terabytes of uncontrolled data and a political agenda. I fear that what may come from CER that draws upon uncontrolled Electronic Health Record data will be politics masquerading as science. Under such conditions, private practitioners, medical innovators, the pharmaceutical industry, and patients are all in jeopardy. The Syndrome of Inappropriate Overconfidence in Computing: An Invasion of Medicine by the...

As we reach mid-December, the next phase of the U.S. economic situation is upon us with 3 distinct new areas: #1 The retail industry make 60% of their yearly PROFITS through the December holiday sales season. The majority of stores, especially upscale stores, are having their worst holiday season in over 30 years. With the middle of December now upon us, many of these businesses have to decide how (or if) to stay alive. They'll turn to massive sales to clear out their inventory, and come January 2 will begin scaling back sales help and closing stores. The manufacturers, watching these store trends for tracking next year production planning, will anticipate a drop in orders coming for 2009 leading to cuts in production and staff. While corporate America has been taking preparatory steps for a major downturn with major layoffs (and of course the financial and real estate sectors have been dealing with the direct impact), the retail side of layoffs begins now and continues through mid...