Now that she has a good job (running a project that provides health care for the homeless), she finds they no longer do.

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S. in computer science and went on to get an MBA. Today, he's a senior project manager for a large health care company.

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If patients are dissatisfied with their care, it is difficult to dispute since they already have been charged for it, says Mark Rukavina, who heads the Access Project, a Boston-based health-care advocacy organization.

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For example, health care giant Kaiser Permanente is about to begin a project in Georgia to sell the iBGStar alongside other diabetes monitors in its on-site pharmacies.

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In western Kenya a new counselling and HIV-testing project allows rural health-care surveyors to set up EHRs from patients' homes by putting their data into mobile phones.

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It is also planning a "memory project" to capture the hospital's role in providing health care in the area.

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Members of the 'MultiMemoHome' project have worked closely with health and social care professionals as well as a small team of older people, to develop technology which is user-friendly.

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Amble says that Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) is keenly interested in the project, and he sees telemedicine becoming far more than a method for providing health care to villages in developing countries that can't afford a doctor.

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