Category Archives: Politics – international

Google develops moral minerals

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Jacques Chester

Google’s announced that they were the subject of a precise and sophisticated attack, apparently aimed at getting access to the GMail accounts of pro-democracy critics of the Chinese Communist regime, both living in China and abroad.
Google don’t think that the accounts were compromised but can’t be sure.
In response Google have said that they are considering [...] Continue reading →

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Two links on the topic of medical IT

Posted on July 16, 2009 by Jacques Chester

Some of you might know that I’ve harboured a small enthusiasm for aggressively using IT to drive down costs of health care, as well as improving quality, safety and providing data for researchers. In the future it may even be possible to couple these databases to expert systems that provide secondary diagnoses to help doctors [...] Continue reading →

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