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STATE BRIEFS
Georgia insurers
unveil easy-access
ATLANTA (AP)-Georgia’s
largest health insurer plans
to offer its members a per
sonalized medical record
that can be accessed over
the Internet.
Blue Cross and Blue
Shield of Georgia on Monday
unveiled “the personal health
record” and said it will be
available to the insurer’s 3.1
million members starting in
late August.
Kaiser Permanente,
meanwhile, is planning to
roll out an electronic health
record in Gwinnett County
this week. All 286,000 of
Georgia’s Kaiser members
will be able to use it starting
Sept. 8.
Currently, most patients
who want to see their records
must request a paper copy
from each physician, and it’s
usually written in medical
jargon.
The Blue Cross personal
health record will be load
ed with claims data, test
results and other informa
tion from each participat
ing health care provider the
patient sees, said Shannon
Troughton, a Blue Cross
spokeswoman.
Medical thesaurus soft
ware will translate medical
jargon into more common
terminology - for example,
a “hypertension” coding will
be entered into the record as
“high blood pressure,” Blue
Cross officials said.
The personal health record
was piloted by Georgia Blue
Cross’s sister organization
in New York, Empire Blue
Cross Blue Shield.
“I think it’s really cool,”
said Laurel Pickering, exec
utive director of the New
York Business Group on
Health, which evaluates
health insurance offerings
for companies.
Federal health officials
have been pushing the
health care industry to
adopt standard electronic
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medical records that could
be accessed by doctors and
hospitals across the country.
The government’s target
for achieving the change is
within the next 10 years.
Search resumes
for man in Lanier
GAINESVILLE (AP) -
Two nonprofit foundations
are expected to help authori
ties resume the search for a
man presumed drowned in
Lake Lanier.
Hall County authorities
plan to resume the search
Monday for Marc Lee Webb,
38, who was last seen fall
ing from a Waveßunner on
July 8 after he hit a large
wave near Holiday Marina
in Buford.
The International
Association of Dive Rescue
Specialists and The Seth
Foundation will help in the
search by providing addi
tional divers and search
equipment, Sheriffs Maj.
Jeff Strickland said.
The search equipment
includes a rotating sonar
that maps the lake’s bot
tom, as well as a remote
operated underwater vehicle
equipped with cameras and
a recover claw.
The remote operated vehi
cle locates and photographs
potential targets detect
ed by the rotating sonar,
Strickland said.
Additional divers funded
by The Seth Foundation will
utilize a “mixed gas system”
that allows for more search
time at the bottom of Lanier,
which is nearly 100 feet deep
in some areas, Strickland
said.
Woman rescued
stuck in mud
SAVANNAH (AP) - A U.S.
Coast Guard helicopter crew
had to rescue a woman who
became stuck up to her neck
in mud in a creek.
Kimberly Rozier, 36,
apparently drove her
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Gainesville 90 72 pt sunny
Helen 89 67 pt sunny
Lagrange 92 70 t-storm
Macon 95 73 pt sunny
Marietta 90 73 pt sunny
Milledgeville 97 74 pt sunny
Houston 88 76 t-storm
Los Angeles 82 68 pt sunny
Miami 89 80 t-storm
Minneapolis 91 71 mst sunny
New York 88 75 pt sunny
vehicle into Jones Creek
and then climbed out and
began swimming, said Chief
Terrell Chipp of the Midway
Volunteer Fire Department.
Rozier was arrested
Saturday afternoon on
charges of disorderly con
duct and obstruction, and is
being held at Liberty County
Jail, Deputy Marty Adams
said.
A fire crew arrived at the
scene after receiving a call
after 11:30 p.m. Friday.
“We were told when the
woman drove the car into
the water she just jumped
in and began swimming,”
he said.
“A man who was in the
vehicle with her tried to
get her to come back to the
shore, but gave up when
she kept swimming farther
away.”
Delta brings 160
evacuees to Atlanta
ATLANTA (AP) - A
plane carrying 160 evacu
ees from Lebanon landed at
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta
International Airport just
after midnight Sunday.
Delta Air Lines Inc. oper
ated the specially chartered
767 wide-body aircraft from
Cyprus as part the U.S. State
Department’s mass evacu
ation of U.S. citizens from
Lebanon.
So far about 7,500
Americans have been evac
uated from Lebanon since
Israel began its offensive in
reponse to the capture of
two Israeli soldiers July 12
in a cross-border attack by
Lebanon-based Hezbollah
guerrillas.
U.S. officials estimate
about 25,000 Americans are
in Lebanon.
Dina Sleiman of Virginia
Beach, Va., was visiting her
husband’s family in Lebanon
when the fighting began.
Sleiman and her family
- her husband, Dani, and
three children, ages three to
11 - fled from Saida to the
north of Beirut and spent
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Rome 97 72 pt sunny
Savannah 94 76 t-storm
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Statesboro 98 77 t-storm
Thomasville 95 74 t-storm
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two days on a bridge with
hundreds of other people
hoping to get on a U.S. mili
tary ship to Cyprus.
“I am so glad to be home,”
Sleiman said by phone from
the airport. “We were in
a safe area, but they kept
talking about things escalat
mg.
Delta CEO Gerald
Grinstein, who was on the
14-hour flight from Cyprus,
said the company is ready
to fly more evacuees to the
United States if the U.S.
State Department needs
more help.
“This is part of the Delta
DNA,” Grinstein said.
The flight cost the U.S.
government $1 and was no
charge to the passengers,
who were offered compli
mentary hotel accommoda
tions for up to 48 hours in
Atlanta in partnership with
Intercontinental Hotels
Group.
The Atlanta-based Delta
will offer passengers spe
cially discounted travel to
their final destinations in
the United States, Canada,
Puerto Rico or U.S. Virgin
Islands.
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OBITUARIES
PAUL LEON MONTGOMERY
WARNER ROBINS - Leon Montgomery, 65, passed away
on Thursday. Montgomery was born November 22, 1940 in
Thomaston. He was a self-employed carpenter most of his
life. His wife, Gaynelle Hutson Montgomery, his parents,
Paul Frank Montgomery and Lillie Jane Montgomery,
and brothers, Henry Montgomery and Chester Stanley
Montgomery, all preceded him in death.
Perdue, others state
support lor Israel
By CHARLES ODUM
Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA - Political and
religious leaders spoke in
support of Israel’s military
efforts against Hezbollah at
a rally Sunday, with some
speakers calling for the com
plete demolition of the guer
rilla army.
“We cannot negotiate with
Hezbollah,” said Steven A.
Rakitt, CEO of the Jewish
Federation of Greater
Atlanta.
“It is time to demolish
Hezbollah. We are here to
say ‘Enough is enough.’”
U.S. Rep. David Scott, D-
Ga., told a crowd of about
5,000, many waving Israeli
flags, that Israel’s fight is
the world’s fight.
“There is a cause for the
world, and that is for us to
go forward from here and
stand with Israel, support
Israel, encourage Israel to go
forth and to disarm, disman
tle and destroy Hezbollah,”
Scott said, adding it also is
time to similarly bring down
terror organizations Hamas
and al-Quaida.
“If we cannot get Syria
and Iran to turn around, we
must be willing to stand up
and go forward and disman
tle and disarm Syria and
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Iran,” Scott said.
Gov. Sonny Perdue and his
wife, Mary, drew a warm
ovation when introduced.
By far the loudest ovation
and cheers came for DeKalb
County Commissioner Hank
Johnson, who has pushed
U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney,
D-Ga., to a runoff.
Johnson responded by
blowing kisses to the crowd.
Johnson did not speak at
the rally, but he received
a nod from U.S. Rep. Tom
Price, R-Ga., who said,
“Hank, when you’re success
ful, you may never receive a
greater reception.”
Many political hopefuls
took advantage of the rally
as a campaign opportunity,
but Perdue made only a brief
appearance, leaving immedi
ately after his speech.
“We’ve come together
today under solemn circum
stances,” Perdue said.
“We want to say with such
clarity, we have come togeth
er in support for the state of
Israel.”
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