All of this is now being done electronically, without direct involvement of the patient.
And new technologies like prescription cards can allow patients to be monitored without direct physician supervision.
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Without direct contact with the beneficiary, the trustee won't know how best to serve, he says.
Without direct debit from bank accounts or credit cards, paying a monthly mobile bill is a chore.
Porsche and Bertelsmann are exceptional companies that have renewed themselves without direct pressure from the capital markets.
I'd also note that without direct injection, the Mazda mill fails to fully exploit the car's lighter curb weight.
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But without direct control of the sales force and with employees in revolt, there was only so much she could do.
Because the company apparently acted on its own, without direct order from the government, this decision is unreviewable by a court.
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Ultimate responsibility for wrongdoing of this magnitude lies at the top of an organization because, even without direct complicity, it occurred due to a lack of management oversight.
Chuck Pappalardo, the managing director of executive recruiting firm Trilogy Search suggests a variation on the office politics question that could reveal similar rifts and alliances without direct questioning.
The company plans to carry on Ms. Brown's legacy, but without her direct participation.
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You cannot achieve the energy savings possible without having direct user control over what the glass is doing.
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Similarly with opportunity costs without a direct link to business objectives and outcomes there is no real connection for executives.
It resembles what Ronald Reagan did in 1976 to change the course of GOP politics, but without the direct challenge he made to Gerald Ford.
Labour backbencher David Winnick urged Mr Cameron to guarantee that no military action would be taken against Libya without "direct authorisation" from the United Nations Security Council.
One of the most bizarre incidents to have happened on a pitch then unfolded, scrum-half Mike Phillips' kick hitting the overhead camera, albeit without any direct impact on the contest.
By the middle years of this decade, several auto makers could offer technology to make vehicles capable of piloting themselves under certain conditions without the direct participation of the driver.
And I think it is clear that without those concrete steps and without those direct negotiations toward that transition, you are simply going to see -- continue to see more uncertainty and more unrest.
The new money will open TeraGrid up to more researchers, in part by adding a Web-services dimension that will let institutions tap the computer without a direct connection to the eight major data centers, which are sprinkled from San Diego to Pittsburgh.
And with traditional movie funding sources drying up, Hollywood studios increasingly see Beijing as a bankrolling destination of choice, with Chinese counterparts ponying up on glitzy co-productions, including "Iron Man 3" and next year's "Transformers 4, " and films without a direct China connection as well.
In our European and eastern European operations, it seems the exchanges have the ability to set their own prices without being under direct regulatory oversight.
Monson began his efforts without a single direct report.
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The givers get their tax deductions while their designated charities benefit without the hassle of direct ownership.
Some analysts have suggested that airlines are prone to copy one another's pricing strategies without that necessarily involving direct collusion.
Americans can submit their own questions and receive direct responses without questions or answers being filtered by the media, she said.
You can speak your responses, and a reply will be fired off without any need to direct your attention away from the road.
Hampshire continued to lose wickets at regular intervals and were fortunate Pothas was not run out without scoring after a direct hit from Lou Vincent.
"The only way to resolve all pending issues between Israel and the Palestinians, including the settlements issue, is through direct negotiations without preconditions, " said Yigal Palmor, Israel's Foreign Ministry spokesman.
BT's dominance without the need for direct regulatory intervention.
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Trust also enables a firm to hire a large number of plant managers, because the CEO will feel comfortable delegating decisions to their direct reports without spending too much time on supervision.
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