National Communications Infrastructure: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, January 19, February 23, March 24, and March 31, 1993, Part 1 |
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Page 37 - Request the National Research Council of the National Academies of Science and Engineering to...
Page 104 - Sullivan has pointed out that control of fewer than ten risk factor, could prevent between 40 and 70 percent of all premature deaths, a third of all cases of acute disability and two-thirds of all case, of chronic disability...
Page 266 - Chair recognizes the gentleman from Virginia, Mr. Boucher. Mr. BOUCHER. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
Page 304 - Within the next decades education will change more than it has changed since the modern school was created by the printed book over three hundred years ago.
Page 83 - US Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Linking for Learning: A New Course for Education, OTA-SET-430 (Washington, IX: US Government Printing Office, November 1989).
Page 104 - ... health information and health promotion, preventive health services, and education in the appropriate use of health care.
Page 179 - In earlier history, wealth was measured in land, in gold, in oil, in machines. Today, the principal measure of our wealth is information: its quality, its quantity, and the speed with which we acquire it and adapt to it.
Page 274 - The gentleman's time has expired. The gentleman from Colorado, Mr. Schaefer. Mr. SCHAEFER. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I do have some questions that 111 be submitting for answers to the Commission.
Page 31 - This would enable health care providers to access immediately, from any location, the most up-to-date patient data, including medical images from tests, resulting in improved diagnoses and more informed treatment decisions.