Facebook’s Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston | TechCrunch

Very interesting. I would think he is right on. Still, the valley is a place that get's companies up and going.

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8 Startups That Are Shaking Up The Health Care Industry

8 Startups That Are Shaking Up The Health Care Industry:

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Congrats to my friend Donna Hill Howes at Sharecare! They made number 8 on the list!

eHealth Initiative Releases 2011 Report on Health Information Exchange Sustainability - MarketWatch

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Health Information Exchange still has a way to go, but this recent report at least shows that sustainability, one of the core issues with HIE, is gaining. Another encouraging reference is the ability for the HIE's to move off of government funding. This will be a key to long term success. While the healthcare world seems to line up on both sides of the HIE bridge, the ability for a doctor to have the data they need at the point of care is something that is hard to argue. HIE has to happen one way or another.

Employers, payers jump onto Health 2.0 bandwagon | Healthcare IT News

Jim Hansen takes the stage at Health 2.0. Way to go Jim!

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Agora 12" Ultra Portable Laptop powered by Google Chromium OS - Buy your Google Chrome OS laptop computers from Kogan

Kogan Launches first commercial version of Chromium OS laptop. I received my free Chrome Laptop a few weeks back. Took a little get all my cloud services setup, but now I can do everything I need on it.

I have my documents synced to Google Docs. I can get my corporate mail through SmartMail. Of course gmail and my sync to Google Calendar. I can do video chat with Google Talk and I found IMO that allows me to do all my IM including Skype.

The only gap I have now is RDC, or remote access to my server. I think I can get LogMeIn setup for that and then I will be set. So amazingly enough, I can do 80% of my work in the cloud!

Agora 12" Ultra Portable Laptop powered by Google Chromium OS - Buy your Google Chrome OS laptop computers from Kogan

Crazy Talk

Great quote... you get what you pay for. I was reading thread on Linkedin that talked about “free” EMR’s and whether they are really free. Well, if you have read my post you know I focus more on total spend, not free. Instead of spending money on licensing, why not spend it on things that really matter like training and support?

Well, in this thread, there is a post from a lady that say, “You get what you pay for!” Wow, I bet she works for a marketing company for big vendor! So let’s see, my huge health organizations spends 20 million to put in a system that never really get’s installed and then I have to rip it out. Did I get what I paid for then? Let’s do a little experiment; I went to HISTalk.com and voila, any given day you can find one of these stories…

“NHS urged to 'turn off life support' for £3bn CSC contract”. I guess I could do the math on what that is in US dollars, but did they get what they paid for? Of course not! Spin it if you can! I still opt for paying less to the vendor for the licensing and more to my team to get the thing installed! Or heck, why not find a solution that is easier to work with, doesn't change the way you do business, and grows with your organization? Oh yea, that would require change...

Newton to IPad = MU to...

The Story Behind Apple's Newton

The Newton, for those that still remember, ushered in the first real leap toward what is now an IPad. The Newton, as with most disruptive technologies had a few things going for it and a few things running against it. The Newton ushered in the first usable handwriting recognition solution. It also became the first platform to coin the term Personal Data Assistant. It truly changed the thought process behind computing portability. It was also bulky, poorly lit, and a little clumsy in it’s presentation layer. The Newton had a strong, committed user base as well as a gaggle of detractors. It did however, set the groundwork for where the IPad 2 is now. It broke the mold. It changed the game.

Meaningful Use has a similar path set before it. MU is no doubt bringing disruption to healthcare. At this early stage the disruption is certainly causing disruption for everyone in the healthcare food chain. Large hospital networks to the solo doctor are feeling the heat to move their records to an electronic format and begin opening the silos that have held the critical data needed to provide a better continuum of health. For many this is seen certainly as not using data in a meaningful way but rather in government meddling where they don’t belong. I know of one large health organization that is being forced to push their electronic records online so they can be viewed by a referred doctor and by the patient. In the rush to make this happen, the data displayed looks like 1970’s punch cards. At this stage it would be a stretch to call that “meaningful”.

But where we are now and where we will be are two different things. If organizations and doctors had willingly moved toward connected data we would have still had an early gap in what and how the data was provided. What MU is doing is pushing the process along and of course the early attempts are going to be less then glamorous especially given the short timeframes. But now the door had been shoved open. The silos are being exposed. There is some form of logic to it and it is starting, ever so slowly to move the industry in the direction of connected care. We may not see that data become truly meaningful and usable for many more years. We may find ourselves in nothing more than survival mode for the next 5 years to just get the dang thing to work.

But where will we be by 2017? 2018? Meaningful Use will be in full deployment and we will have moved from the clunky world that we saw with the first Newton to the elegant simplicity of the IPad. The organizations will have had time to digest their current processes and vendors will have caught up to the challenge. Just as with any divergent technology, some will have survived, some will not. Healthcare needed a swift kick to get things started. We’re on the right track. Naysayers can poke holes all day. But time will tell as it did with the IPad evolution.