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Top 10 Unethical Psychological Experiments Psychology is a relatively new science which gained popularity in the early 20th century with Wilhelm Wundt. In the zeal to learn about the human thought process and behavior, many early psychiatrists went too far with their experimentations, leading to stringent ethics codes and standards. Though these are highly unethical experiments, it should be mentioned that they did pave the way to induct our current ethical standards of experiments, and that should be seen as a positive. There is some crossover on this list with the Top 10 Evil Human Experiments. Three items from that list are reproduced here (items 8, 9, and 10) for the sake of completeness. ....
Lining Up for Health IT The huge challenges of implementing a $30 billion program are just beginning to hit the states. Andy Kim | July 2010 To get a sense of the information technology (IT) challenges states face under the new health-care law, take a quick peek at Jonah Frohlich s schedule. On a recent day, California s deputy secretary for health IT started the morning by meeting with the leaders of 12 departments from the state s Health and Human Services Agency. The agenda: the implications of a health information exchange (HIE) on the agency s business processes. Next up, a get-together with officials from the California Public Employees Retirement System the pension fund is a large employer to discuss the role their purchases play in supporting e-health initiatives. Then it was on to a briefing on Medi-Cal s electronic health record (EHR) incentives, which was followed by a meeting with academics at a Unive ....