Nickels Re-files, Electronic Medical Records and Petitions Made Public
Ross Reynolds
06/02/2009 at 1:00 p.m.
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Guest(s)
Greg Nickels is the mayor of Seattle.
Dr. Thomas H. Wood is Chief Medical Information Officer for Swedish Hospital.
Brian Murphy is director for Who Signed.org, an organization that plans to publicizing the names of people who sign in support of Referendum 71 to overturn the state's domestic partnership law.
Charlie Swift is a criminal defense attorney specializing in national security law at the Seattle law firm, Swift & McDonald. He retired from the U.S. Navy almost two years ago as a Lieutenant Commander in the Judge Advocate General's Corps. Prior to retirement, he represented Salim Ahmed Hamdan in the landmark case Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld, which went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Jennifer Wall is the communications director for the Help is Here Express, a traveling program that helps uninsured people pay for prescription drugs.
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