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 […]
Reflections on Bitcoin – 3
This week on CNBC, Warren Buffett said that Bitcoin is a joke. Once again, this reminds me of 1995 when many pundits said the World Wide Web was a joke. Needless to say, many of them had a stake in the status quo. I remain bullish about the future of Bitcoin as a transaction platform. […]
Coupons, Checks, and Envelopes
During the open enrollment period for 2014 healthcare insurance a few months ago, my wife and I chose the AARP Medicare Rx Preferred plan offered by United Healthcare, the largest health insurance provider in America. How could we go wrong? A United Healthcare unit had been chosen to fix the healthcare.gov website. They are reputed to […]
Floppy Disks
The New York Times reported today that the Federal government is using floppy disks for data transfer to the Federal Registry (see Slowly They Modernize – A Federal Agency That Still Uses Floppy Disks for the full story). The Office of the Federal Register (OFR) of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), and the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) jointly administer the […]
» Healthcare.gov
A lot of knowledgeable experts are weighing in with their points of view about went wrong with the launch of healthcare.gov. A project as massive as healthcare.gov can have many possible points of failure. When I first heard that the upcoming October 1 launch, it reminded me of the website my team at IBM built […]
