"Government Is Funding Technology to Monitor People's Health-Care Behavior by Having Them 'Visit' with Computers" SNIPPET: "(CNSNews.com) - “Health-care professional time is very, very expensive,” says Robert Friedman of Boston Medical Center. “We’re not going to constrain health-care costs by giving patients absolutely unlimited time with doctors or nurses--they’re too expensive.” In an effort to increase efficiency in the treatment of certain health-care problems, the federal government has provided Friedman with about $22 million in grants since 1995 to develop technology that can save people actual visits to a doctor's office by allowing them to make "virtual" visits in which...