Long Live the Fax Machine
Coupon Chile did some research about fax machines and found that there are 46.3 million of them around the world, 17.4 million in the United States. The total faxes sent each year is 16.9 billion, representing 853 miles high of paper, which equates to 2 million trees taken down every year. The fax machine and […]
Healthcare Cost
Yesterday’s post focused on the pain of enrollment for healthcare insurance. The other pain is the cost of the insurance. When I retired from IBM in 2001, my monthly health insurance cost was a little more than $200, including one of my four children who was eligible at that time. For 2014, my monthly cost […]
Health Exchanges
Back in 1995 when my team at IBM was building a website for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games, we learned many lessons about websites. Back then, we said that we had no idea how many people would visit the site, when they would visit, how long they would visit, or what they would do when […]
Giraff Plus
Conventional wisdom points to a shortage of nurses in healthcare. The number of elderly is climbing and so is the number of retiring nurses. The Wall Street Journal this morning reported that one percent of chronically ill patients consume 22% of healthcare expenditures. Elderly patients get shuffled back and forth to multiple providers resulting in […]
Bionic Eyes
I read “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology” by Ray Kurzweil seven years ago. I have to admit that this was a difficult book to read. It is a bit hard to summarize, but basically the singularity is how Ray describes the merger of biological humans and machines. He makes a strong set of arguments, […]