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Chief Executive Magazine asked a cross-section of of CEOs to write about their outlook for the coming year. Editor J.P. Donlon said he was struck by their twin concerns about rising government spending and increasing taxes and regulations, as well as the effect both would have on what they regard as a fragile economic recovery. Donlon observed, [...] Futurist and scientist/inventor Ray Kurzweil welcomes the new year with predictions of how technology will change humanity by 2020. Solar power on steroids, longer lives, the chance to get rid of obesity once and for all, and portable computing devices that start becoming part of your body rather than being held in your hand are among [...] A new slogan may be ascending to an important position in the lexicon of health care. It is ?disruptive innovations?, a term used persuasively by the author of a new book, The Innovator?s Prescription, published by McGraw-Hill. The rise of technologies that introduce the ability to diagnose precisely the root causes of disease and create targeted [...] When your doctor greets you in the examining room he or she probably will have a notebook computer in hand. If that is not the case now it soon will be. The lawmakers in Washington are committed to a digital health care system and are backing that commitment with $20 billion. The legislation goes by [...] |
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