Beyond Today

The Evolution of Meaningful Use: Today, Stage 3, and Beyond.

Steven E. Waldren, MD, and Erin Solis The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on Oct. 6, 2015, released a final rule governing the electronic health records (EHR) meaningful use (MU) program through 2018. The timing of the rule’s release was challenging as it gave practices fewer than 90 days to make adjustm...

Conceiving Music Today: Manifold Compositions, DISSCO and Beyond

Manifold compositions consist of all actual and potential variants of a work that contains elements of indeterminacy and is generated by a computer reading the same data for each variant. The relationship between manifolds and classes of composition is discussed and a tool (DISSCO) unifying composition and sound synthesis is presented. Deterministic and random processes facilitate by DISSCO are...

Alzheimer's Disease: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

Alzheimer's disease is the most common and well - known cause of dementia, as a progressive, irreversible brain disorder that affects cognitive function, personality, thought, perception and behaviour. Alzheimer's disease is the fourth leading cause of death in western countries. Interesting to know that this disease was unknown in medical community till 100 years ago and had no name. Dr. Alois...

Pathology Today

Genetics Today

convened in Washington in September 1961 for a three day meeting, and this volume is the result of their deliberations. If, as did most of us, you missed the meeting but would like to know what transpired, this book provides the answers. Published, ".. . in part as an experiment. .. ," the book is a verbatim transcript of the proceedings , jests and all. The participants discussed, mostly throu...