Telehealth Shortens Wait Time for Vets
The Department of Veterans Affairs has struggled with exceptionally long wait times for veterans to see a physician. The wait has been especially long in California as the problem is compounded with exceptionally long driving times. New telehealth services similar to Skype or FaceTime have changed the equation. In some cases the wait has dropped from three months to […]
Olympic Advertising
It was a privilege to be able to be at the opening ceremony In Atlanta (1996), Nagano (1998), and Sydney (2000). The ceremonies get more extravagant each year and you have to wonder how they are going to top it the following year. The Atlanta Olympic Games was the beginning of e-business for IBM. A member […]
Chinese Scientists To Perform Gene-Editing Trial On Humans
CRISPR-Cas9 is not exactly a household name. CRISPR stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. Cas9 stands for CRISPR associated protein 9, an RNA-guided DNA endonuclease enzyme associated with CRISPR. If you read what they really stand for, it might make your head hurt. It is really complex. CRISPR was discovered in 2007 when a yogurt company found a bacteria which could eliminate viruses. The technology has evolved dramatically […]
Election System as Critical Infrastructure
An excellent article in the WSJ this morning said, “The U.S. is considering classifying the country’s election system as part of its ‘critical infrastructure’, putting it on par with the electrical and banking systems…” The White House added, “The president has confidence in the integrity of our electoral process and everybody else should, too.” Not to […]
Baby Boomers and Exercise
A recent survey of 1,443 consumers by CareCloud Corp., a developer of cloud-based healthcare technology for doctors, found 62% of Baby Boomers use the web to access and update their electronic health records. The percentage was significantly higher than older users and younger users. An article on InternetHealthManagement.com said, “Boomers are the group most likely to take advantage of digital […]