Despite such skepticism, President Obama based on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 expects hospitals and physicians to do their part in facilitating a nationwide interoperable Electronic Health Information Network by 2015 (Rashbaum, 2011). ... Indeed, the immediate access to patient data, diagnostic images and results, laboratory reports, as well as radiology exams at the "touch of a button " has increased physician satisfaction (Hoffman & Podgurski, 2009). ... Patient privacy and risk of tort liability has much to do with the reticence. ... Potential cost savings are ...

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Initially administered to great success within the province, the provisions of Medicare were quickly assimilated at a federal level, and in 1957 became legislation under the Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic Services Act. This first step towards universal health care offered provincial governments a fifty percent reimbursement for programs adopted within the framework of the public model.i Conceived through an assessment of ethical and social responsibilities, Douglas' adamant support for Medicare was inspired by the democratic appeal for greater social justice initiatives. ... "ii ...

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Michel Foucault's unorthodox historiography does not treat the past is if it were an open book. ... The fine two-dimensional space of the portrait is both the origin and the final result: that which makes possible, at the outset, a rational, well-founded body of medical knowledge, and that towards which it must constantly proceed through that which conceals it. [12] The classical nosological structure defined a "theory of species " for diagnosing diseases by their essences and ideal forms. ... In chapters 8 and 9, Foucault described how a new medical perception arose out of the integrati...

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