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Re: Top 6 billionaires in US healthcare

ekivemark — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 09:34:34 -0000

Shouldn't Judy Faulkner have been in this list?

Re: Where did the issue of health data exchange disappear to?

ekivemark — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:47:54 -0000

Data Exchange is not sexy but it is absolutely critical to the long term health of each and everyone of us. Our health data is too important to be left strewn across a multitude of patient portals and exchanged by entities that have their own mission and agenda. I was proud to see Medyear.com launch at the HealthData Palooza. It gives each of us the power to aggregate our health data and then choose what we want to share, who we want to share with and for how long we want to share.

Data Exchange has dropped off the radar. The average patient still assumes that Doctors and hospitals talk to each other and our information is going to be available. The reality is far from that nirvana. Patients have to get in to the habit of asking for their data electronically. Patient's are the ones with skin in the game. It is their life that is at stake.

Re: Is medicine for the suits or the white coats?

ekivemark — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 16:26:04 -0000

Without patients neither have a job.

The patient should be at the center and the suits and white coats work together to deliver the most effective care.

Re: Rant: Why NBC and The American Media Are An Embarrassment

ekivemark — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 13:16:40 -0000

Ignoring the victims of terrorism was a thoughtless move. How does America expect other nations to respect 9/11 if we snub our special relationship friends.

Re: Rant: Why NBC and The American Media Are An Embarrassment

ekivemark — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 13:15:07 -0000

NBC are making fools of themselves by live tweeting events they wont show until 5 or 6 hours later. Like that makes total sense....

Re: Clamshell! The History of the Greatest Computing Form Factor of All Time

ekivemark — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:21:49 -0000

I remember using a Grid Clamshell Laptop.... Things have improved a lot. I also remember having an IBM Portable PC, complete with a 286 Add in processor card, Hercules Graphics Card and a 20MB Hard drive (all after market add ons)

Re: Dropbox adds automated photo uploading from PCs and Macs, new Photos page | VentureBeat

ekivemark — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:21:37 -0000

Isn't that the point. If it works easily you will be tempted to buy more storage.

Re: What’s Up With Jawbone UP? A Peek Inside the UP Testers Program.

ekivemark — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 23:04:06 -0000

I still use my replacement UP band, but only really to monitor sleep. The cap lasted about 10 days this time. It is not designed for active winter sports use. I lost the cap while skiing. I lost the cap on the original UP while skiing also. It is too easy to get snagged by clothing and pop off.

My original UP had a charging and sync problem. You had to stretch out the band in order to get it to sync or charge. The new band doesn't have that problem. All in all the Fitbit beats the UP for immediate feedback and usability.

Re: This is not the iPad 3

ekivemark — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:40:10 -0000

I agree with John Gruber. But I wonder if Apple might stay true to Steve Jobs statement about the right size for the iPad. but instead release a Maxi-iPod Touch...... http://ekive.blogspot.com/2...

Re: Google+ Is Going To Mess Up The Internet

ekivemark — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:44:44 -0000

I know it is weird. It works on my iPhone in iOS5/Safari but it doesn't matter which browser i use on Mac - Safari, Chrome or Firefox.

Re: Google+ Is Going To Mess Up The Internet

ekivemark — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:34:07 -0000

I am fed up with Google+ on Mac OS X. If I try to assign someone following me to a circle I get the error that I have reached my daily limit. This is even if I haven't assigned anyone to a circle in days or even weeks. Adding to circles doesn't work on Mac Desktop browsers. It has rarely if ever worked, all they have done is change the error message.

If I can't assign people to a circle what use are circles? And without the ability to post to Google+ from other sites Google+ is an isolated island.

Re: http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/10354060140

ekivemark — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 09:34:37 -0000

time to break out some really old sponsor t-shirts. I wonder how many are still around (the companies that is! )

Re: Ask Engadget: best 'real' 11- to 13-inch laptop, with a focus on thin?

ekivemark — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 09:32:41 -0000

MacBook Air 13" - Has the screen resolution of a 15" MacBook Pro and is really light. Build quality is excellent and the update to add an extra USB port, Thunderbolt and SD Slot make it a great all round machine.

Re: Jawbone Announces Up, A Wristband To Track Health, Fight Obesity

ekivemark — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:20:13 -0000

I would love to see Jawbone demonstrate this device to the #QS Quantified Self and passionate health folks at HealthCa.mp/sfbay on 9.23.11 at Kaiser Permanente's Innovation Center in San Leandro. Anyone have a contact at Jawbone to help this happen?

Re: Following Facebook Down The Wrong Path

ekivemark — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:42:30 -0000

If Google, Facebook or any other site is going to insist on real names then their employees and those responsible for such policy decisions should not be able to hide behind a faceless support persona. They should stand up and be counted and take the repercussions of their decisions. Anything less is not living by the standards they are imposing on everyone else.

Re: FDA to Review Medical Smartphone Apps

ekivemark — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:51:20 -0000

This could have a big impact for Apps dealing with Diabetes. Glucose Meters are FDA regulated devices and connecting these devices to a smartphone to collect readings would imply that the app that collects that data is FDA approved too.

Re: https://e76pti6jvmt45vgrka8r94767i266rsc-a-sites-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/ifr?url=http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/101587836944691449263/disqus.xml&container=enterprise&v...

ekivemark — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:15:46 -0000

It seems to work.

Re: MacBook Air Contest: Protecting Data as it Moves Between Private and Public Clouds? - ReadWriteCloud

ekivemark — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:58:04 -0000

As companies implement social media internally and participate in public social forums such as Twitter or Facebook attention needs to be paid to the risks of inadvertently letting sensitive content slip in to the public domain.

In health care the situation can be considered even more risky. HIPAA controls the release of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and every employee and business partner is potentially liable for breaches. The best advice is to not share PII in social media - whether public or private.

When we talk Public and Private Clouds that embraces far more than just Social Media. The "cloud" offers great potential to deliver cost effective scalability for an organization. Popular services, such as Amazon Web Services offer the ability to create "Private Clouds" on what is essentially a public infrastructure. In going this route users should consider implementing virtual private networks between their in-house and their private cloud networks.

Other steps that should be considered is to create a staging server on your own network. Use this to configure those external private clouds. Don't depend completely on the cloud vendor. Amazon's recent east coast cloud meltdown was a great warning against total dependence.

Data should be encrypted while in transit. Unprotected data opens organizations to the potential for data breaches. You don't want to be moving "data in the clear." That is more reckless than shipping un-encrypted backups on tape or disk offsite.

The authentication for data transfers should also be tightly controlled. Don't hard code access information in to scripts. Implement configuration and management scripting processes so that userids, password and other authentication data can be changed quickly. While you are doing that implement a process to change those keys on a regular basis. When you pull the authentication data from scripts make sure you place the information in a secure location and tightly control access and auditing.

Audit logs are something that need to be monitored on a regular basis. Are there any exceptions to the normal patterns of access? Is someone trying to hack administrator accounts? Are you seeing failed login attempts? Access from addresses outside of your network?

When it comes to accounts for accessing the Public Cloud for administration purposes don't use the same account names and password as those used for your internal systems. If you do you create an attack vector an intruder looking to infiltrate your network.

Public Cloud infrastructures often have an "I forgot my password" reset that uses email. Make sure the email reset request goes to a well controlled email account. You don't want those requests being routed to an email account that can easily be hacked. This is what happened to Twitter a few years ago. An email account was hacked. A password reset request went to the email account and was used to change the password on a cloud-based system and the email was deleted to hide the evidence.

There are many advantages to using Public or Private Clouds, or a combination of both. Don't freak out over the risks. Common sense and often simple steps can make it exponentially more difficult for intruders and data thieves to hijack your systems or your data in transit.

Re: Nokia slams door on Ovi label, rebranding everything to Nokia Services

ekivemark — Mon, 16 May 2011 08:58:06 -0000

Why do you need Doors when you are just staring through the Windows......

Re: Weekend Giveaway: Something Called An iPad Two (??)

ekivemark — Sat, 14 May 2011 10:51:14 -0000

Use it to report from HealthCa.mp events such as #hcdc or #hcsfbay as @healthCampHQ

Re: Google’s $500M DOJ fine all about illegal online drug ads

ekivemark — Fri, 13 May 2011 10:41:43 -0000

This article needs some editing. It is a Half BILLION dollar fine, not half a million.

Google hasn't projected forward to 20007 - they must have been looking back to 2007.

Re: Carriers crack down on Android tethering apps, rain on our mobile hotspot parade

ekivemark — Tue, 03 May 2011 10:26:31 -0000

Not Monopolistic. It is an Oligopoly. Basically AT&T (consuming T-Mobile) and Verizon with Sprint an also ran that now plays the renegade role.

Re: Apple and the TV industry

ekivemark — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 21:58:51 -0000

AirPlay is one of the keys to Apple reinventing TV. With more content being delivered for the iPad they just have to license AirPlay to TV manufacturers and iPad and iPhone users will be able to redirect content to their big screens.

Re: Open Letter: Congress Must Protect Transparency Programs in Budget Negotiations - Sunlight Foundation

ekivemark — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:54:24 -0000

Mark Scrimshire
Chief Instigator & Co-Founder
HealthCamp Foundation

We need access to data to help drive transparency in Health Care and promote better outcomes. With Healthcare at about 18% of GDP we need to provide information that supports the creation of better health care markets. Consumers are in the dark when it comes to health care costs and quality. Without this critical data informed decisions about health care are impossible to make.

Re: Steve Gillmor, Japan, and the Trojan Horse called Facebook Comments

ekivemark — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:49:28 -0000

I worked for an organization that blocked access to most Social Media. I could only comment on TechCrunch when I was out of the office, or using my smartphone.