@TechCrunch article - Internet Bandwidth a time-based issue and not a capacity issue

TechCrunch has a great post about the impact of bandwidth caps for Internet use. The post, which links to an expensive report is available here: 

Another Study Shows Data Caps Are Likely Ineffective, Address Wrong Problem

The Internet Capacity problem is just like the electric energy problem. In the UK customers could install a meter for cheap rate power to charge up storage radiators. 

These ran overnight when there was plenty of power available and then gave out heat during the day. As pointed out in the Techcrunch article, we need to deal with the peak capacity issue and simple bandwidth caps exacerbate rather than alleviate the problem. 

If "cheap rate" bandwidth became popular it might trigger some interesting developments. Imagine an "Internet Storage Radiator" that could go on to the Internet each evening when bandwidth was plentiful and download and cache popular content. This could be based on the browsing patterns of the people typically using the family or small business network. Then with some intelligent proxy serving the pre-loaded content could be served from the "Storage Radiator" with the live Internet connection only being used for real-time content.

With the falling cost of compute power and storage this type of service could be an affordable option. Imagine if the storage radiator would refresh your video queue amd download and store likely new content which would then be available on demand - without taxing the your network connection. This could be an interesting proposition for Netflix since they currently represent probably around 30% of peak time Internet usage. 

Netflix could turn the tide of bad sentiment for their brand through caching

Imagine if Netflix offered a low cost storage hub that you could attach to your network router that cached popular content and offered this in conjunction with a low cost "cached movie plan". This could be refreshed overnight based upon a member's queue selections. This could reduce/redistribute network demand and reduce peak demand on their architecture and content delivery network. They might even negotiate more favorable transmission charges with ISPs for this off-peak content transmission.

I can see how Netflix could easily implement the use of this cached content.

There are plenty of opportunities for innovation in this space. We can come up with better solutions that address the real problem - peak hour demand versus network capacity. 

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My #RainbowButton Initiative presentation ( http://2.healthca.mp/s3cylR ) to Baltimore Tech Breakfast this morning

Today I was at the Baltimore Tech Breakfast (11.30.2011). 

I was presenting the work that Alan Viars and I have done since we won a prize at the Health 2.0 Developer's Challenge in San Francisco.

Rainbow Button aims to build a market place for the donation of health data under the consumer's control.

Here is the Presentation: 

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Baltimore Tech Breakfast - Presenting #RainbowButton Initiaitive

The regular Baltimore Tech Breakfast took place today at the Emerging Technology Center in Canton, Baltimore. The event is growing in popularity. A strong turnout today (Nov 30, 2011)

The show and tell session kicked off with Bullhorn (@bullhornmobile).  A free iPhone / Android App.

Allow people to ask and answer questions locally. 

The app was launched at the Baltimore Grand Prix. People downloading the app at the event were using it to ask questions relevant to the event. Like where is the best happy hour, where is the best view of the race.

The app can be branded. The team is looking at applications for Universities. e.g. Ask a question on campus.

Voting and Game Mechanics are being built in to the app for the next iteration (end of 2011).

PowerHouse Webcasting

Components:

- Live Web Casting (including video)

- Live Management tool (multiple producers)

- Archive/Synchronizer (sync audio and slides)

Impressive cross platform secure webcasting tool

This seems to bring together a number of tools:

- YouTube

- CoveritLive

- Slideshare/Slidecast

- Livestream/UStream

Aiming at corporate clients. 

Provide:

- On demand (bandwidth based charging)

- Live (subscription - per user)

- Portal

Currently in private Alpha development.

- Consumers don't need to download any components/drivers. Content producers do need to download.

Q&A - How do we find talent?

- Local Tech Events

- Employee referrals (smart people tend to know smart people)

- Craigslist (cheap and a lot of techies seem to check out craigslist)

- Make yourself interesting by sharing a lot. The good people will find you.

- LinkedIn

"Development is a creative discipline rather than an engineering discipline - technologies come and go"

"The act of building improves the ability to build"

If you outsource overseas - eg. via odesk then be very specific in your request.

Have a series of related questions ready to ask that are relevant to your project. This helps to ensure the response is not just an automated response.

Develop a relationship. Test with short simple projects.

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@mikearrington - Inspiring Lifestyle change - Being Less Fat « Uncrunched

Liz Welch at Inc. Magazine interviewed me in 2010 as part of her regular “The Way I Work” series. I had just moved to Seattle as part of my overall goal of (occasionally) detaching myself Silicon Valley.

In the article I talk about my erratic sleep patterns and my overall weight gain – some 50 pounds since I started TechCrunch in 2005.

In the year since I visited a sleep center and began focusing on getting enough sleep at regular hours. After a year of that my life has changed dramatically for the better. But the weight just kept creeping up. In the late summer 2011 I was a good 70 pounds heavier than I was when I started TechCrunch. And probably 90 pounds over my ideal weight.

Basically, I’m fat.

Being fat sucks. I’m not talking about the way I look. I’ve always been fairly comfortable in my own skin. But there are a whole bevy of health issues that fat people have to deal with. You don’t live as long as you should, and your quality of life is diminished substantially.

I’m trying to take control of this issue in my own way, and for the last several weeks I’ve been experimenting with a complete shift in lifestyle. So far, so good. And since a lot of people in our world deal are dealing with weight gain and health issues resulting from sitting in front of a computer for 16 hours a day, I thought I’d share.

The lightbulb went off in my head as I was reading Neal Stephenson’s new book Reamde (buy it here). In the book a character works at his computer from a treadmill, stationary bike or elliptical machine.

That prompted me to research “treadmill desks” and read about people’s experiences with them. Some people can’t stick with it, but a lot do. And the benefits are staggering. You’ll burn an extra 150 calories or so per hour. Most people say that they’re significantly more alert during the day, and they sleep much better at night.

So I jumped in. I elected not to buy a $5,000 unit (there are a couple out there), and building one myself seemed like too much trouble. Instead I bought a “TrekDesk” on Amazon and a cheap treadmill. I’ve been walking at 1.5 mph for 7-8 hours a day on average over the last few weeks. Some days I’m logging over 15 miles walking.

That’s not all though. I’m also using a Withings wifi scale to track my weight, and I’ve shared it with friends so they can keep an eye on it. The scale itself works great. The software is terrible but it does the job.

The final product I’m using is a Jawbone Up device. It’s a pedometer (very handy), it tracks sleep and it has a vibrating alarm feature to wake me up – much like the Lark device that I love so much. The only complaint I have about the Jawbone Up is that it doesn’t track steps very well on a treadmill with my hands up at a keyboard. But from what I can tell all pedometers seem to have this problem.

Things are just getting started. But the fact that I’m sleeping properly and have revamped my diet with my doctor, combined with actually walking miles and miles a day, has already had a profoundly positive effect on me.

I’ll update in a couple of months with any progress. If all goes well, in a year or two my body may have forgiven me for the TechCrunch years. We’ll see.

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Inspiring post from @MikeArrington about how he has changed his lifestyle in order to be healthier and lose excess weight.

We are rooting for you Mike!

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You can do some cool things with Advanced Custom Fields and Post Types in Wordpress. Here is Marjorie Roswell's presentation from Monday's Baltimore Wordpress Meetup Group.

http://www.meetup.com/The-Baltimore-WordPress-Group/events/40446932/?a=ed1_l6

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Education-Specific HTML to Be Submitted to Search Engines Soon

The LRMI 0.5 spec lets publishers communicate in a page's HTML things like the competencies taught, the competencies required, the type of educational materials and the typical age range of intended users for anything educational published online. Time required for completion, degree of interactivity and a small number of other ways of describing educational content are included in the spec.

Active participants working to figure out how to construct LRMI and how to integrate it into Schema.org include people from small non-profits like open curriculum community Curriki, corporate education technology giant Pearson, international information standards group Dublin Core and intellectual property law group Creative Commons, among others.

Participants debate on the official mailing list over new terminology, balancing concerns like coherence with Schema.org, ease of input by people who will enter metadata to go with resources being published online and specificity gained or lost by the way that metadata fields are named and framed.

While some semantic technologies are able to assert categorization from the top down, whether content publishers participate or not, it seems likely that the kind of data that will be communicated in LRMI will require informed participation by the producers of the content themselves. Requiring participation in categorization could pose a challenge to hopes the spec will gain meaningful adoption.

The LRMI effort doesn't seem well-known yet outside its own ranks, either; the official website has almost no inbound links indexed by Google yet and none of the education technology blogs we track here at ReadWriteWeb have mentioned LRMI yet. The project was just announced last month though and in the education market, a month isn't a very long time.

LRMI isn't alone though, either. Nathan Angell, a Board Director at the collaborative open education software community Sakai Foundation and a Product Manager at rSmart, calls LRMI "another welcome intervention in growing list of data specifications for education."

"These days we have access to an unbelievable number of learning resources--both open and proprietary--but it's still hard to find the right ones, quality resources, suited to your needs, when you need them.

"For example, in the Sakai community, we have built a new platform--the Open Academic Environment--that helps people create and tag learning materials, and most importantly, share them openly by default.

"With the LRMI specification, we can help people tag their materials with exactly the right information that will make them easy for others to find and use...and even better, we can augment the suggested content widgets we already have in place to discover resources in the moment that match the very specific needs of a particular educator or student."

Angell, who isn't associated with LRMI in particular, sees data specifications like this as potential game changers. Those suggested content widgets are really shorthand for computation that can begin at a higher level of abstraction if the hard work of content categorization and description has already been done in a standardized way. That means education technology providers, search engines and others don't have to invest time and energy into understanding educational resources online - they can begin with a pre-existing understanding of that content and then offer higher-level features and services on top of already-organized information.

"LRMI helps set the stage for the hive mind that will help our children's children learn faster and better than we ever thought possible," Angel says. "In comparison, school today will look like drawing pictures in the dirt with a stick."

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HealthCare needs to think this way too. Work with the major search engines to introduce a metadata standard for health information.

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Baltimore Wordpress Meetup Group - Custom Post Types/Advanced Custom Fields

I am at the Baltimore Wordpress Meetup Group. The topic is Custom Post Type and Advanced Custom Fields.

Here is the intro for the session:

Create your own edit screens. Choose from multiple field types. Learn straightforward API functions for use in your themes. Attach custom fields to custom post types. Yay! CMS* made easy. (*CMS= Content Management System). Presenter: Marjorie Roswell

Standard Post Types:

- Posts 

- Pages

- Media

- Revisions

- Navigation Menu Items

Custom Post types allow you to extend these basic post types to meet your own needs.

The Plug in can be found here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/

Advanced Custom Fields:

This is a newer plugin. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/

Documentation can be found here: http://plugins.elliotcondon.com/advanced-custom-fields/documentation/

Create a field group before creating custom fields for the group. Otherwise they may not save.

Display custom fields:

- Custom Post Type Archives handles by theme's archive.php

- Override this for particular post type in archive-{post-type}.php

Two key entries from the API are used to build a print layout for the archive view. These are:

<?php  get_field('{field name}')  : ?>

<?php the-field('{field description}') : ?>

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6 things to know about Occupy Healthcare | Healthcare IT News

Occupy Wall Street is everywhere and anywhere you turn, and although demands are unclear, the movement has garnered unprecedented support across the country. But one offspring of Occupy Wall Street has failed to gain the same coverage, despite its united efforts and clear demands: Occupy Healthcare.

According to the site OccupyHealthcare.net, “Healthcare is a morass of competing interests, and a majority of those competing interests are committed to maintaining the status quo. Make no mistake, there is a cacophony, and this cacophony is made up of the voices telling you that change in healthcare is impossible. They are wrong.” 

Whether you agree with the movement or not, knowledge is power, which is why we rounded up six things to know about the Occupy Healthcare movement: 

1. It has clear principles.  Unlike the Occupy Wall Street movement, Occupy Healthcare has managed to create a set of clear, guiding principles, making it easier to identify the goals of the movement and its beliefs. The site recently proposed the following:

• We believe healthcare is a right for all. 
• We believe the healthcare system, as it currently stands, is too costly and ineffective. 
• We believe that we should create a system that works to meet the needs of a person and community as a whole. 
• We believe patients, families, and communities should be at the center of all healthcare. 
• We believe that a truly effective, person-centered healthcare system should be built on prevention and wellness rather than illness and disease and that addressing social determinants of health is an integral component of improving health. 
• We believe monetary incentives should be tied to better outcomes and improved health, with increased rewards for improving the health of those most vulnerable among us. 

2. Supporters recognize American healthcare isn’t the best in the world.  On the site KevinMD.com, Mark Ryan, MD, explained why the healthcare system is in dire need of change. He argues that “contrary to the common wisdom,” the American healthcare system isn’t the best in the world. In a series of points defending his stance, he points to a World Health Organization analysis that ranks the U.S. healthcare system 37^th.  Additionally, the United States ranks 39^th in infant mortality, 43^rd for adult female mortality, and 42^nd for adult male mortality. “We rank last among seven developed Western-style democracies in U.S. healthcare performance,” Ryan wrote. “Our healthcare spending per capita is 50 percent greater than the next highest nation’s, and our healthcare spending in the U.S. is increasing faster than most other nations’.” Lastly, Ryan added, according to a recently released report from the Commonwealth Fund, the United States  scored 64 out of 100 points, lagging behind other developed nations. “Americans pay much more per person to support a healthcare system that does not function very well at all,” Ryan concluded. “[It] provides inadequate and unequal care for far too many people, and that leaves nearly 50 million Americans without health insurance. These are indicators of a system with significant, fundamental dysfunction.” 

Continued on the next page. 

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Great summary of #OccupyHealthCare.

Put the patient at the center!

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#RainbowButton at #Health2STAT Supporting @Todd_Park and team with Data Liberacion through Data Donation #patients20

Last night I headed down to Bethesda for the regular #Health2STAT event hosted by Aquilent and a group of fellow sponsors.

I was looking forward to hearing David Hale (@lostonroute66) talk about his personal history and the impact of personal genome testing on his life and a journey of discovery.

The evening had some great talks lined up and the theme of the evening for me became "Information is the best Rx for better health." Whether it is insights gained from an analysis of our personal genome, text messages that get us to think about a healthier lifestyle, or vide messages received when we leave the Emergency Department or hospital. Relevant, timely and personalized information can have a major positive impact on our health and on our recovery from an incident or health issue.

I was looking forward to a relaxing evening meeting the great friends in the DC/Baltimore Health Community. There are so many innovators and thought leaders and Health 2.0 STAT is a great, lively forum for us all to get together.

I arrived early and discovered that a number of presenters had dropped out, whether as a result of flight cancellations or other commitments. The host, Mike Tock asked me if I could step in and do an impromptu 5 minute presentation. Fortunately I had my laptop in the car and I had just gone through a series of updates to RainbowButton.com with my "partner in crime", Alan Viars (@aviars). So with about 20 minutes to prepare I put together a quick presentation before going on as the first presenter!

David Hale, a agent provocateur extraordinaire, caught me presenting:

http://lockerz.com/s/157067921

Yes - I successfully managed to create a presentation and live demo in less than 20 minutes and then presented and performed the demo in five minutes. Using www.RainbowButton.com is really meant to be that simple you can upload and de-personalize your BlueButton file in a couple of minutes.

David also caught me creating the presentation at Health 2.0 STAT:

http://lockerz.com/s/157065312

For those that couldn't be there here is the presentation. I have uploaded to Slideshare:

I am also experimenting with iWork.com and sharing Keynote. So you can check out the presentation there too:

http://public.iwork.com/document/?a=p63197994&d=RainbowButton-Health2STAT.key

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@lostonroute66 #health2stat

David was a steal for $25!

When you don't know your medical history personal genomics it is an amazing resource.

Yet Maryland prevents genome testing because insurers are concerned if consumers know more than the insurers.

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Health eworks - david mathison md #health2stat

Health E works streams relevant video messages to patients at discharge from ER or hospital. "Mobile video prescriptions"

This addresses hospital readmissions

NIH supported to look at reducing ER re-admissions.

Implemented in southwest DC

68% have smartphones. Hispanic population are heavy users of smartphones.

The videos are traceable - unlike paper prescriptions or paper literature.

>50% view videos

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The text big thing in wellness Crosby + kaiser Permanente #health2stat @crosbymarketing

Crosby marketing and Kaiser Permanente Using text to attract federal employees through wellness initiatives.

Developed a program - mobile wellness coach

Daily wellness tip via text message. A weekly theme. Health tip
Joke Recipe
Inspiring quote
Interactive question

Text keyword via short code to opt in

Very low opt out rate

Health texting works!
People are comfortable with it
Focus on content
Widest reach
Plenty of success stories

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@miketock kicks off #health2stat

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More Americans than not want health law repeal: poll

A recent poll suggests that 47% of Americans want the affordable Carre act repealed.

Yet the majority also believe that there should be healthcare for all. If ACA is repealed do Americans really want:
- older kids in a family denied coverage on their family policy if they are over 18 but under age 26?
- insurance companies to be able to refuse coverage because of a pre-existing condition?

I believe that the insurance exchanges that are being established under ACA will drive a shift that puts more Americans in direct charge of their health care insurance and see a reduction in directly sponsored employer based health plans. This will be a positive development for the better health insurers since individuals are more likely to stay with a plan they like and will cease to be "shopped around" by their employers as they seek better deals every couple of years. With more longevity to a health plan contract the plans will have an incentive to focus on real prevention rather than remedial care. Just look at the average member relationship at Kaiser Permanente versus other insurers. I don't have the stats to hand but believe you would see the KP member staying for 10+ years whereas your typical employer sponsored plan moves insurer every couple of years.

The Affordable Care Act can no doubt be improved upon but that is no reason to throw it out or cripple it. We have already seen a massive surge in innovation in healthcare which I believe is all resulting from the health reform initiatives.

More Americans than not want health law repeal: poll Read it online: http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7AF1BD20111116?irpc=932 Sent via TweetDeck (http://tweetdeck.com)

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Dear Posterous - Help me deal with spam comments with the same ease that I can post to my blog

I don't know if other Posterous users have an issue with spam. It is beginning to frustrate me. Not so much the spam itself but rather the steps necessary in order to remove a spam comment. This is completely out of step with Posterous' legendary simplicity. This is one area where WordPress seems to be well ahead of Posterous in usability.

When you receive an email notifying you of a comment on a blog WordPress offers links to Approve, Spam or Trash the comment.
With Posterous comments are automatically posted to my blog, may be this is a setting I can configure, and the email notice offers me an easy way to post a reply to a comment. when you have legitimate comments on your blog that is a great feature. However, when the comment is spam I want to remove it. I don't see an easy way to do that.

When I am on my iPhone using the Posterous App I can remove my Post in a couple of steps, but removing a comment on a post seems to be impossible. I even tried opening the web link to the post with the comment. but I couldn't see the "remove comment" link. So I opened the page in Safari.

It is crazy that removing a comment is many times harder than removing a post.
Dealing with Spam will always be a cat and mouse game that is difficult to get ahead of. Here are my suggestions for improving the situation.

1. Add a link in the Comment Email to be able to Trash or mark the post as Spam. We probably want both options.

2. To keep in the spirit of Posterous simplicity that allows posting from an email why not set up two special mailboxes that work like the Post to Posterous email. If I receive a comment I should be able to forward the email to spam@posterous.com or trash@posterous.com and have Posterous automagically trash or spam the posted comment using the From Address in the forwarded email.

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Jobs Was Right: Adobe Abandons Mobile Flash Development | Gadget Lab

The BlackBerry PlayBook was famously marketed as a Flash-capable tablet, though ultimately failed to deliver. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com

UPDATE 8:39 A.M. PST: Adobe confirmed it will cease Flash development on mobile devices in a press release published Wednesday morning.

In an abrupt about-face in its mobile software strategy, Adobe will soon cease developing its Flash Player plug-in for mobile browsers, according to an e-mail sent to Adobe partners on Tuesday evening.

And with that e-mail flash, Adobe has signaled that it knows, as Steve Jobs predicted, the end of the Flash era on the web is coming soon.

The e-mail, obtained and first reported on by ZDNet, says that Adobe will no longer continue to “adapt Flash Player for mobile devices to new browser, OS version or device configurations,” instead focusing on alternative application packaging programs and the HTML5 protocol.

“Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores,” the quoted e-mail says.

In the past, Adobe has released software tools for mobile developers that create a single platform programmers can use to make applications that work across three major mobile platforms: Android, iOS and the BlackBerry OS. While it’s seemingly easier than learning all of the native languages for each operating system, some developers have claimed a loss in app performance when coding in a non-native language that then gets translated into other languages.

The move indicates a massive backpedaling on Adobe’s part, a company who championed its Flash platform in the face of years of naysaying about its use on mobile devices. Despite Flash’s near ubiquity across desktop PCs, many in the greater computing industry, including, famously, Apple Computer, have denounced the platform as fundamentally unstable on mobile browsers, and an intense battery drain. In effect, Flash’s drawbacks outweigh the benefits on mobile devices.

Flash became a dominant desktop platform by allowing developers to code interactive games, create animated advertisements and deliver video to any browser that had the plugin installed, without having to take into account the particulars of any given browser. However, with the development of Javascript, CSS, and HTML5, which has native support for video, many web developers are turning away from Flash, which can be a resource hog even on the most advanced browsers.

Apple made its biggest waves in the case against Flash in April of last year, when Steve Jobs penned a 1,500-word screed against the controversial platform, describing it as a technology of the past. Jobs and Apple disliked the platform so intensely, it has since been barred from use on all iOS devices.

Despite attempts to breathe life into Flash on other mobile devices — namely, Android and BlackBerry OS — Adobe has failed to deliver a consistently stable version of the platform on a smartphone or tablet. In WIRED’s testing of the BlackBerry PlayBook in April, Flash use caused the browser to crash on a consistent basis. And when Flash was supposed to come to tablets with Motorola’s Xoom, Adobe was only able to provide an highly unstable Beta version of Flash to ship with the flagship Android device.

“Adobe has lost so much credibility with the community that I’m hoping they are bought by someone else that can bring some stability and eventually some credibility back to the Flash Platform,” wrote software developer Dan Florio in a blog post on Wednesday morning.

The drastic reversal in Adobe’s mobile plans comes in the wake of the company cutting 750 jobs on Tuesday, a move prompted by what Adobe labeled “corporate restructuring.”

An Adobe representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Flash is dead on mobile. One advantage Android theoretically had over iOS is going away.

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@cyberslate: INFOSEC Preso on Security and Privacy in SharePoint 2010: Healthcare - Life in Caps Lock: cyberslate's posterous

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Some great information here about using SharePoint in HealthCare.

Compartmentalization with a robust security grouping strategy can pay dividends. in many cases SharePoint can be used to manage workflow because the process of managing the workflow does not require visibility to PHI/PII information. In these cases separate and compartmentalize the PHI/PII data and control access through security groups.

I built this capability in SharePoint 2007 using associated lists. This allowed teams to review case workload and progress without having to see member information. Yet the member information was accessible via a simple hyperlink, providing the viewer had adequate security rights.

As is correctly pointed out, this needs Administrator involvement from the outset and ideally the creation of utilities and web parts that support this approach so that we make it easy for site administrators/developers to create departmental and team workflows that remain HIPAA client and don't divulge PHI or PII to unauthorized personnel.

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Heading to panera in hunt valley for open hours - ohours.org/ekivemark

Talking this morning about technology, startups and social media at http://ohours.org/ekivemark Mark Scrimshire
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#iftf #kpcth social chocolate

Super Better:

Rules of the game were published online before the games even existed.

Social chocolate is working on games for the seven wonders I the connected world.

Games are not child's play.

183M Americans play games for an hour each day.

A 21 yr old will have spent 10,000 hours playing games - that is as much time as spent on their education.

Life had better get with the program - people get from games what they want from life.

42% of gamers are women. Average is 43 yrs old.

Harness the 7bn world population and apply it. Gamers unlock protein mystery that baffled aids researchers for 10 years

Gamers did it in 3 weeks.

Super better: health care + games and Gameful design + social connections

The winner in health will be the one that keeps people coming back to the "game" - intrinsic rewards, social connection. Think positive - live 10 years longer

Strong Social support leads to stronger immune systems.

Spend time with people we like to lower your blood pressure.

Super better:

7 guided missions:

1. Epic win
2. Secret identity
3. Bad guys
4. Power ups
5. Quests
6. Allies
7. Future boosts

Super better is moving to open beta soon and will launch at SXSW.

Could you get people to play super better without them realizing they are playing a game. Allies = caregivers

Interestingly Doctors are number 1 choice as the one person that can be invited in to the player's secret lab.

The trick is to tie the game to real world activity. The basic issue is that people have to want to make a change.

Need to evolve a solution to help people discover what they want/need to change.

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Julie Norris welcoming #iftf and friends to #kpcth

Talking about social chocolate - gaming for health?

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#mhealth - Stakeholders Comment on Proposed Regulation of Mobile Medical Apps - iHealthBeat

Some sensible proposals for refining FDA proposed mHealth applications regulations. http://m.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2011/11/7/stakeholders-comment-on-proposed-...

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5 Reasons Google Is Sweating Apple | Fast Company

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Siri is Apple's secret weapon. It will change computer interaction in ways we can't yet predict. I hope that when Siri comes out of beta it will be made accessible to iPad2, iPhone 4 and iPod Touch users on iOS5. That would dramatically expand the usage of Siri and prompt developers to integrate Siri in to their applications.

Imagine an iOS application that uses Siri to control your TV, your desktop computer and other devices.

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#SXSW Health Accelerator - Apply to get your idea seen and heard - Deadline 11/18/11

This is an opportunity not to be missed. Let's change HealthCare for the better. If you have a company or product that you are launching in the Health Care market place why not showcase at the premier interactive event - the SXSW Accelerator!

Hurry the deadline is approaching! 

2012 SXSW Accelerator:

Entry Deadline Is Friday, November 18

 

Take advantage of the opportunity to showcase your emerging technology product or service in front of industry leaders by participating in the 2012 SXSW Accelerator. This event takes place on March 12 and 13, 2012 as a part of the SXSW Interactive Festival, during which you can improve your product launch, attract venture capitalists, polish your elevator pitch, receive media exposure, build brand awareness, network, socialize and experience all that SXSW Interactive has to offer. The deadline to register is Friday, November 18, so visit http://sxsw.com/interactive/accelerator/enter today.

SXSW Accelerator returns for its fourth edition to showcase some of the web’s most exciting innovations - could your company be one?  This event provides an outlet for companies to present their new online entertainment products, social media / networking technologies, or mobile, news, music, or health technology to a panel of industry experts, early adopters, and representatives from the angel / VC community.  Past judges have included Tim Draper of DFJ, Chris Hughes of Facebook and Jumo, Paul Graham of Y Combinator, Craig Newmark of Craiglist, Robert Scoble of Rackspace and Scobleizer, Jeff Pulver of 140 Conference, Chris Shipley of Demo and Guidewire, and Tom Conrad of Pandora.  We invite your company to join us for this incredible event, as we highlight the technology market’s most impressive new innovations.  The application deadline is Friday, November 18, and the event itself will be March 12-14, 2012 in Austin, TX.   Please apply at http://sxsw.com/interactive/accelerator (music technology companies visit http://sxsw.com/music/accelerator). Then let me know that you've applied, and I'll do what I can to help you get in!
 

Here are some Frequently Asked Questions - and their answers:

1)      Deadline:

Friday, November 18

 

2)      Launch date eligibility requirements:

a.       A company’s product / service must have launched no earlier than March, 13, 2011.

b.      A company’s product / service must not be launched after June 13, 2012.

c.       Companies will be allowed to submit only one product / services to the SXSW Accelerator event. Companies who submit more than one product / services will not be eligible to participate in the SXSW Accelerator event.

d.      Founders of the applying startup must retain some portion of ownership in the company to be eligible to participate.

e.       Must not have raised over five million in funds from combined funding sources.

 

 

3)      Is there an application fee?  Can it be waived?

a.       Yes, a non-refundable $175 entry fee will be required from all applicants who would like to be considered for participation in the event.

b.      All Accelerator entrants will be given the chance to register at the lowest rate.

c.       Waived Fee – If a company is interested in having the fee waived please have them contact me.  We don’t heavily advertise this, but we want companies to participate and in no way do we want to be exclusive which is why we are so open to waiving the fee.

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