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To: RealMuLan who wrote (20350)	10/20/2004 1:48:42 PM
From: RealMuLan	Respond to of 110194

"Asian Health Care's IT Injection The region has begun harnessing technology to boost the industry, showing its potential to lead the world in such innovation One of the big worries among American information-technology executives is that the U.S. is in danger of losing its edge as other countries, especially in Asia, build up their high-tech infrastructure and leapfrog past the West. Indeed, in some areas the question isn't whether the U.S. is going to fall behind, but whether it can catch up. Take telecommunications. Measured in sheer number of cellular users, the U.S. lost its No.1 position years ago to China, which now has more than 300 million people chatting on their mobile phones. That's understandable. There are more than 1.3 billion Chinese, after all. But when it comes to cellular services, the U.S. also lags behind Japan and South Korea, both of which have operators that are quickly signing up new customers for third-generation cell service. STUNNING PROGRESS. Surely the U.S. is safely ahead of Asia in other industries -- health care, for instance. The U.S. system has its problems, as President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry have detailed during the current campaign for the White House, but American health care is among the best in the world, its hospitals some of the most cutting edge, right? Not according to Mark N. Blatt, a former family physician who joined Intel (INTC) in 2000. As the chipmaker's manager of health-care strategies, Blatt is in charge of efforts to make hospitals worldwide more IT-savvy. Blatt recently came to Asia to meet with health-care officials in China, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Thailand. When I met with him recently in Hong Kong, he told me was stunned by the progress that some countries are making in using IT to improve how doctors and nurses do their jobs. ... " businessweek.com