The Future of Healthcare and the Internet – Markley Data Center Summit 2013
In a couple of weeks, I will be a guest speaker at the Markley Data Center Summit 2013, sharing some thoughts about the future of healthcare and the Internet. The Internet has changed healthcare forever – diagnoses can happen faster, quality and patient safety can be improved, information is more readily searchable, our healthcare providers can more […]
Electronic Medical Records: Do They Reduce Healthcare Costs
The New York Times published a story in January 2013 titled “In Second Look, Few Savings From Digital Health Records” (see Electronic Records Systems Have Not Reduced Health Costs). The article suggested that a prestigious study that forecasted significant savings from EMR’s was funded by companies that provide EMR software and services. Now, the same […]
Genesys XIX
The 19th Annual Genesys Partners Venture Dinner — Gen XIX– Tuesday night at the Union League Club in New York attracted nearly 100 venture capitalists, investors, journalists, entrepreneurs, and industry executives. As always, Jim Kollegger — CEO of Genesys Partners and one of the pioneers of the information industry — was an elegant master of […]
The Future of Healthcare (radio interview)
The sound clip below is from a radio interview on WNZF in Palm Coast, Florida on January 11 with station general manager David Ayers. It was a prelude to a talk at the Community Open Forum educational series at Florida Hospital Flagler the following week. The event was hosted by Bill Tol, development officer for […]
A Universally Connected World… everything and everybody (2012)
The MIT Technology Review this week had a nice story about how GE is promoting the idea of an “industrial Internet”. This is a really good idea. A number of us at IBM have been talking about “millions of businesses, billions of people, and trillions of things” connected to the Internet for quite a few […]
