Paul Krugman’s column in the New York Times this morning argues that having more people enrolled in Medicare will save money. And that, horrors, all the ideas being floated to “save Medicare”, are misplaced, indeed the ideas should be to…
I had a discussion recently with a state IT administrator who scoffed at using Skype video for telemedicine connections because it was “insecure”. Since we’re doing exactly that for family connections and proposing it for (at least), connections for health-care…
The medical advocacy blog chronicles one women’s attempt to participate and advocate in the care of her terminally ill husband, and the wider implications of the Electronic Health Record. I now sit in meetings for hours and watch power point…
The executive director of the American Telemedicine Association, John Linkous, posted a list of telemedicine myths. Two caught my eye: Telemedicine is all about video conferencing and, therefore, requires broadband. There are many critical needs and uses of video conferencing…
I spent much of the day working on a series of questions for a grant proposal. One of the questions was, “what are the challenges that you found, and how did you manage to work around them?” I wrote: We…
Glenn Fleishman has a comprehensive article which describes the Lafayette LA. fiber network and implications for Seattle. Lots of lively comments on this one too.
The Fibefête is over, a few of us are hanging out for for bits of the Festival Internationale held here in Lafayette, Louisiana. The participants included a group of feisty (to say the least) advocates for open access networks, real…
Many TFHHC applications require a broadband internet connection. According to an article in the LA Times, Vermont ranks 45th among 50 states and two territories, with an average download speed of 3.32 megabits. Neighbor New Hampshire ranked 8th with an…
The following notes are cribbed from techfornonprofits.com from two years ago (!), but summarize opportunities to enhance home health care. I attended the ATA annual meeting in Seattle a couple of weeks ago. This is a roughly two-day affair with…
