Our Medical Records

It is 11PM. Do you know where your medical records are? Most likely they are scattered across multiple doctors’ offices in manila folders. The most information about our healthcare encounters is with "payers", the insurance companies which pay for care if we are lucky enough to have the coverage. Most of their information is about […]

Innovations That Will Change Our Lives

The annual “IBM Next Five in Five” is a list of predicted innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years. The list is based on market and societal trends expected to transform our lives, as well as emerging technologies from IBM’s Labs around the […]

The Ghost Of Christmas, Yet to Come

The Ghost Of Christmas, Yet to Come (Read to the tune of “Twas the Night Before Christmas”) by Dr. David Kramer December 6, 2007 Twas a month before Christmas, and all through the boardroom, The Directors were dreaming of how their hospital might bloom. SG2 data presented, their retreat well behind them, A “vision” was […]

BioEverything

In 1963 there were two tracks that an electrical engineering student at Lehigh University could choose from — electronics or power. Electronics was about solid state devices such as transistors. (The Intel 4-bit 4004, was not to come until 1971). The “power” track was mostly about electric motors and power generation. There was no computer […]

IBM Happenings: October 2007

The month of October set a face pace for the last third of the year. The month was filled with a slew of announcements in hardware, software, services, acquisitions, and strategic alliances. One of the most interesting announcements to me was that IBM announced new software and services to help ensure clients’ success in creating […]