Search

Byline: Mike Romano Three companies that operate quick-stop health clinics at retail stores agreed to support a set of standards established by the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Leawood, [...]

Byline: Mike Romano Peter Pronovost, a well-known patient-safety expert at Johns Hopkins University, has been named to the advisory board of DocuSys, a for-profit company that markets a wide range [...]

Byline: Mike Romano Fast-growing LifePoint Hospitals, which paid $1.7 billion just three months ago to acquire 20-hospital Province Healthcare Co., will spend another $285 million to add five more facilities [...]

Music swappers and online software pirates find themselves in Microsoft's sights. BILL GATES IS WATCHING A COURT case closely these days, and for once it's not his own. If Napster […]

Motor Age: How is the current climate as far as demand for technicians in the auto repair industry? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Romano: Even in this environment, during these economic times, you […]

Describes efforts to develop computer systems which can control an entire house. Details about Microsoft's home of the future; Networking home appliances; Use of voice commands; Home operating system work by IBM and Sony; Views of Sony's Jim Bonan; Joint corporate venture called the Open Service Gateway Initiative; Desire to avoid needing to rewire a home. INSET: Round 5 and not much new, by Susan Gregory Thomas.

Assesses the performance of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. Benchmark tests on Windows NT; Delays in reaching Microsoft by e-mail; Problems with Microsoft's public online service; Price/performance ratio. INSET: Windows NT: A work in progress, by Chris Hayes..

Describes efforts to crack down on the hiring of illegal immigrants in Yakima, Washington. 562 people fired at the Northwestern Fruit & Produce plant; Investigation of the plant by the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS); Increasing pressure from the INS to hire only legal residents; Prevalence of illegal workers in agriculture.

Discusses the installment of media rooms in homes in the United States. Technology included in such rooms; Example of the room of Microsoft executive John Purrier; Costs involved; Need to hire experts to design media rooms; Centrality of television.

Reports on a conflict of interest that may arise from the appointment of Peter Pronovost, a patient-safety expert at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, to the advisory board of the for-profit company DocuSys. Role of Pronovost in the company; Response of the specialist to the issue; Information on deals secured by the company from 1999 to 2005.

The article presents the poem "The Winter Rabbit," by Mike Romano. First Line: My feet left stark imprints in the freshly; Last Line: Nature and all its gold.

Discusses Hemp B.C. and the adjoining Cannabis Cafe in Vancouver, British Columbia, an establishment that allows any adult to smoke marijuana openly. Description of the interior; Comments by owner Marc Emery; Reaction of patrons.

Focuses on Seattle, Washington physician Suzanne Poppema. Her worry that patients are failing to absorb the unpleasant realities about RU-486, or mifepristone, the so-called French abortion pill; Her clinic which was selected for a trial of the drug; Facts about how RU-486 actually works.

Reports on a bill supported by the Colorado Beers Distributors Association that would strictly limit the amount of beer produced by brew pubs and microbreweries. Cancellation of the brewers' right to bypass beer distributors by selling their home-crafted beers; Objection from breweries on the intention of the bill.

The article presents the views of Mike Romano, president of Associated Integrated Supply Chain Solutions, on the factors driving companies to create efficiencies through either automation or more sophisticated labor management.