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Perfecting the Human

JOEL GARREAU / Fortune

Picture a future in which your children won't need sleep or food and will be able to stop pain at will.  That future is in the works.

Look at your second-grade daughter. Now flash forward a decade and a half from today. She is just home for the holidays. You were so proud of her when she not only put herself through Ohio State but also graduated summa cum laude. Now she has taken on her most formidable challenge yet: competing with her generation's elite in her fancy new law school. Of course you want to hear all about it. It is her first time home in months.

Complete Article: http://www.mindfully.org/Technology/2005/Perfecting-The-Human30may05.htm

Speech recognition technology deployed in Canadian healthcare

By CBR Staff Writer

Nightingale, a Canadian healthcare application service provider, is set to use Nuance Communications' speech recognition technology to enable speech recognition within its electronic medical records solutions.

Complete Article: http://www.commentwire.com/article_news.asp?guid=503D30F5-23F2-4449-B807-78FAD77343A1

Electronic health records needed faster

Head of Center for Health Transformation says 'we need to have a sense of urgency'

By Grant Gross, IDG News Service
May 25, 2005

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - U.S. hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, and the government are endangering lives by moving too slowly in adopting electronic health records, Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, said Wednesday.

Complete Article: http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/05/25/HNgingrich_1.html