1996 computer columns

LOG ON - NETworking

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LOG ON - A monthly column on automation trends in medicine

Dec. 9: Tooling up: Informatics innovations
Nov. 11: Telemedicine: New tools, not new medicine
Oct. 14: Integrated networks depend on integrated information systems
Sept. 9: The keyboard is key (learn to type!)
Aug. 12: FDA plays hardball with software ("medical device" rules)
July 8/15: Follow the blue brick road (the hyperlink)
June 10: Educated patients: partners or pains? (access to info)
May 13: Not enough chiefs (physician CIOs)
April 8: Information may rule the roost
March 11: Welcome://to.the.InTRAnet (internal Web sites)
Feb. 12: Come on in -- the water's muddy (computer medical records)
Jan. 8: Confidentially speaking (privacy)

NETworking - A monthly collection of Internet news and tips for physicians

Dec. 16: Reading ELECTRONIC MED JOURNALS ... plus dealing with MIME
Nov. 18: GOVERNMENT: dull but deep ... plus "HTML and you"
Oct. 21: Cruising the HELP WANTEDS ... plus navigation tips, politics
Sept. 16: Rating the RATERS ... plus pediatrics chat
Aug. 19: The wired FEDERATION ... plus finding lists
July 22: Playing GAMES ... plus chartless CPR, AMA Masterfiles, Net competency
June 17: Some CLASSIC RESOURCES and how to use them
May 20: Finding that ON-LINE CME ... plus "More to life"
April 15: When you gotta have THE NEWS ... plus "Ethnosite," why links break
March 18: The voices behind DOCTORS' HOME PAGES ... plus subscribing to lists
Feb. 19: Knowing when IT'S A HOAX ... plus Doctors of the Arts
Jan. 15: Getting it all ON RAMPS ... plus Internet history

Space invader The exam room where a meteorite hit a Virginia doctors' office has become the most requested room among patients, who joke about wearing hard hats to appointments. Story

Feature articles

Medicaid safety net Strong enough to hold?

"I'm sorry" Why is that so hard for doctors to say?

Sharing your space Things to consider when looking for an office mate

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Feb. 8 issue

Obama budget freezes physicians' Medicare pay for 10 years
If Congress follows the White House proposal, $371 billion would go toward reversing planned annual cuts but would not increase Medicare rates.

"Speed dating" matches physicians, patients
A Texas hospital uses the matchmaking model as an informal way for both parties to check out compatibility before entering a doctor-patient relationship.

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Nonphysicians eager to pick up prescription pad Feb. 7, 2005

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