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The World We'll Inherit: California hospital's implementation of open-source EHR bears watching | EHR Watch

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:45:16 -0500

By the end of the year, Kern Medical Center, a county-owned 222-bed acute-care teaching hospital in Bakersfield, Calif., will have implemented Medsphere Systems’ OpenVista electronic health record (EHR). This deployment bears watching because it may become a trend in terms of providers adopting an open-source EHR.

For one, [...]

The Bench: Videos of Bizarre 'Star Gate' Light Over Norway: Spiral UFO

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:12:00 -0500

UPDATE, DEC 10, 2009: Russia admitted Thursday to another failed test of its much-touted Bulava intercontinental missile, after unusual lights were spotted from Norway across the border from the launch site. Story at WSJ.com with video... (Question: Why did Moscow initially deny that this was their missile?)

Dec. [...]

The Bench: Five-Alarm High Rise Fire In Chicago's Gold Coast

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:16:00 -0500

Final Update - Dec. 10 - 11:00 AM - A woman died in the high rise fire and 12 were injured. When CNB last updated at 2:30 am, it was being reported by all media that the fire was under control and that only one person was hospitalized, a man [...]

Stix Blog: Michael Ramirez

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:45:46 -0500

Chip in for my golf addiction

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sweet: President Obama official schedule and guidance, Dec. 10, 2009. In Norway; accepts Nobel; meets PM Stoltenberg, King Harald V, Queen Sonja

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:42:30 -0500

THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
_______________________________________________________________________________________
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 9, 2009

DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2009

The President and the First Lady will arrive in Oslo, Norway in the morning. The arrival at Oslo Airport [...]

Critical Thoughts: Why the Left Loves Global Warming, or, What’s It All About, Alfie?

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:52:00 -0500

Why? What’s it all about? It seems to be about power -- the real end game of the global warming hype. The surest way to expand the power of government is to have a crisis that seemingly needs a bigger government. If global warming didn’t exist, the left would have [...]

BackyardConservative: Sky News

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:01:00 -0500

Awestruck Norskies looked skyward. Was it a modern day star in the east welcoming our President Barack Obama to Oslo for his Nobel? Was the climate changing in a spectacular way--are we all DOOMED? Or was it...

...a Russian missile launch gone awry.[...]

Second City Cop: Daley's Olympic Rant

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:07:00 -0500

At the Chicago 2016 volunteers final luncheon:
Daley started his remarks by calling on the federal government to financially back all future U.S. Olympic bids. It was too difficult for U.S. cities to raise the necessary funds in such short amounts of time, while their competitors often received financial [...]

Second City Cop: Ruth Gets 14 Days?

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:03:00 -0500

From the comments:
Rumor is that the city's biggest Elton John/ Billy Joel fan was given only 14 day suspension when a 70 day suspension was recommended..Weis thought 14 days was enough. At least she wont miss a tennis lesson with Maggie in this weather If true, appropriate for a [...]

Second City Cop: Huh?

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:05:00 -0500

Someone send Shortshanks in for a dope test:

Mayor Daley today cracked the door open to providing a government subsidy for cash-strapped McCormick Place, but only if the convention center cleans its own house first and ends price gouging that has triggered a trade show exodus.

“If it [...]