But other experts say the regulation has created cumbersome record-keeping problems that effectively favor domestic producers.
To the Editor: Your editorial states that $20 billion spent on e-records will lower costs and improve care by replacing cumbersome records that cannot be easily stored and transmitted.
The most frequent problems reported significantly more often by subjects who withdrew consent compared to matched retained subjects were interference with work, lack of time, complicated and cumbersome record-keeping requirements, difficult study medicine regimens, and difficulty rescheduling appointments due to lack of flexibility on the part of study personnel.
This latest relaxing of the rules, justified as a way to cut down on cumbersome record-keeping, will allow the FBI significant new powers to search law enforcement and private databases, go through household trash, and deploy surveillance teams, with even fewer checks against abuse.
The primitive systems of the era produced sound of very low quality unless the performers were stationed directly in front of the cumbersome recording devices (acoustical horns, for the most part), imposing severe limits on the sort of films that could be created with live-recorded sound.
The goal is both to improve the quality and lower the costs of care by replacing cumbersome paper records with electronic records that can be easily stored and swiftly transmitted.
Because JFK lived and died in an era when TV news was expensive and cumbersome to record, the direct archive of him is small, so drama has filled the gap.
The video involved Kiedis and Navarro kissing towards the end as a way of breaking the monotony of cumbersome video recording.
■ Expensive and cumbersome electronic medical record systems which, although highly touted as engines for patient safety and quality care, cannot communicate with one another and are prone to be gamed by those seeking to "upcode" for services.
Beals's pictures of the World's Fair Air Show contest are remarkable technically and historically: technically because she managed, with slow and cumbersome equipment, to record moving airships and people rushing to see them; historically because they provide an extended glimpse into early attempts to fly.
