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 […]

DACS 21 – Review

On May 7th, the Danbury Area Computer Society held it’s monthly meeting and it was an honor to give a talk there about The Future of Healthcare and the Internet. This was the twenty-first year that I had shared my thoughts with this fine group. The meeting was open to the public and took place in the […]

World Community Grid Update

The World Community Grid has brought hundreds of thousands of people and millions of computers together from across the globe to create the largest non-profit computing grid benefiting humanity. It does this by pooling surplus computer processing power from users’ PCs. Although the PC will be the minority participant in the networked world compared to […]

DACS 21

On May 7th, 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 the Healthcare and the Internet. This will be the twenty-first year in a row that I have shared my thoughts with this fine group. The meeting will be open […]