Siddhartha Mukherjee and Apple

This post reflects on two amazing sets of accomplishments. First is about a Medscape One-on-One, in which Eric J. Topol, MD, author of The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD, PhD. Dr. Mukherjee is the author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography […]

DACS 22

On May 6th, the Danbury Area Computer Society will hold it’s monthly meeting, and it will be my honor to give a talk there about The Future of  Healthcare and the Internet. This will be the twenty-second year in a row that I have shared my thoughts with this fine group. The meeting will be open to […]

Net Attitude

When I wrote Net Attitude 12 years ago, I thought that by now, all organizations would be exploiting the Internet effectively. Sadly, this is not true. There are so many web sites that do not do what they are supposed to do. You enter a date or a phone number or a social security number, and […]

Inside Bitcoins

I first met Jeremy Allaire when he was chief technology officer at Macromedia back in 2001. Fast forward 13 years, and I saw him give the opening keynote speech for the Inside Bitcoins Conference and Expo at the Javits Conventions Center in New York. His opening remark was that Bitcoin is an historical innovation. As noted […]

Regenerative Medicine

On the morning after the Blueprint Health lunch, Demo Day, and dinner, I headed back to the Javits Convention Center for day two of the 3D Printing Conference. I was quite interested in the medical implications of 3D printing, and I was thrilled with what I learned. The opening keynote speaker was Dr. Anthony Atala, Director of the Wake Forest […]