Launching Greeting

Greeting from the Chairman

Launching HITECH.

n engl j med 362;5 nejm.org february 4, 2010 382 I is the lifeblood of modern medicine. Health information technology (HIT) is destined to be its circulatory system. Without that system, neither individual physicians nor health care institutions can perform at their best or deliver the highest-quality care, any more than an Olympian could excel with a failing heart. Yet the proportion of U.S. h...

An era, a remembrance, a greeting…

I do not wish to commemorate Professor Dagianti based solely on his scientific achievements. It would trivialize his memory. I wish you to remember him as a friend and mentor to all university cardiologists. I am old enough to remember him when he was full of strength and fighting spirit, when he used to discuss with his colleagues about the role of the newborn academic discipline of Cardiology...

Veteran satisfaction with RN voice-mail greeting.

Voice-mail communication is often used to convey information between the registered nurse (RN) and the Veteran. Using a pretest-posttest design, this study examined whether implementation of a standardized voice-mail greeting had an impact on Veteran satisfaction and the number of messages left on the RN voice-mail. Veterans were more satisfied and there was a significant decrease in RN voice-m...

Launching eLife, Part 1

The new open-access journal eLife has launched, making its first content available in PubMed Central. In addition to publishing science of the highest quality, the journal aims to improve both the peer-review process and the presentation of new research results.