Unintended Consequences of LED Traffic Lights – USA Efficiency In rush to be energy efficient, number of cities across USA have replaced regular bulbs in traffic lights with LED technology. Their use seems to be a no-brainer, since these new LED lights are 90% more energy efficient. Efficiency vs. Effectiveness In our rush for short-term […]
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Unintended Consequence of Electronic Health Records (also EMR) – USA
Unintended Consequence of Electronic Health Records (also EMR) – USA Technology is not a silver bullet Technology by its very nature is seductive and therefore no wonder it is thought to be a silver bullet to solve complex problems. EHR/EMR – Silver Bullet In U.S medical costs have been shooting up, creating a fear that […]
Unintended Consequences of Oklahoma/Virginia Personhood Law: USA
Unintended Consequences of Oklahoma/Virginia Personhood Law: USA Road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions To curry favor with religious right and anti-abortionist, lawmakers in Oklahoma have passed a personhood law – basically defining a fertilized human egg as a person, so that its destruction by any medical or contraceptive procedure is criminalized. Accepting the […]
Unintended Consequences of Push for Generic Medicines – USA
Generic Drugs In the developed world as the population rapidly ages and the number of ailments requiring mediation explodes, there has been an understandable push towards generic medications as a way to control costs. In this blog we examine the unintended consequences of this push towards generics in U.S.
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