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Dear Subscribers: Be sure to check out the new America's Business vodcast at www.americasbusiness.org...America has one of the most advanced medical systems in the world but many doctors and hospitals continue to keep records on paper. Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), a guest on this week’s “America’s Business with Mike Hambrick,” is pushing legislation to modernize health care. Dingell’s PRO(TECH)T Act of 2008 would reduce medical errors and costs by encouraging adoption of health care information technology and further protect the security of health information. The bill would reduce soaring healthcare costs and save many lives, Dingell says. “It is a piece of legislation that industry desperately has to have (and) government desperately has to have,” he says. Will gasoline prices continue to rise? Will gas-hungry sports utility vehicles really go extinct like dinosaurs? American Petroleum Institute (API) President Red Cavaney, another radio guest, will answer those questions and more. Microsoft Corp.’s Visio software has helped manufacturers become more efficient. The same software can also help hospitals provide better care and save lives. Penn State’s Hershey Medical Center used Microsoft Visio and Orlando Software Group’s ProcessView to help improve health care delivery. Hershey Medical Center Chief Medical Information Officer Chris DeFlitch and Frank Kapper, Vice President of Orlando Software Group, will tell us more. And the National Association of Manufacturers Vice President of International Economic Affairs Frank Vargo will give us the scoop on the latest round of World Trade Organization negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland. Frank probably had more access to the U.S. negotiating team than any other business group representative. In our regular segments, Renee Giachino of American Justice Partnership gives us the latest on tort reform and commentator Hank Cox recalls “The Way It Was.” And our program will close with “The Last Word” from the National Association of Manufacturers President Gov. John Engler. For more about “America’s Business with Mike Hambrick” and to listen to the program online, please click here. And for video highlights and more, check out www.americasbusiness.org.
