Technology is the cure for healthcare system | Healthcare Daily News 06/24/2008
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Harvard professor sees technology as cure for ailing, costly healthcare system
Clayton Christensen, who also authored The Innovator’s Dilemma, said that technology is the disruptive innovation that can help fix the broken healthcare system:
“Three specific technologies will bring about improved ability to diagnose precisely and enable disruption in healthcare business models, he said: molecular diagnostics to understand genetic structure, imaging technologies to look inside the body and high-bandwidth telecommunications to bring expertise to offices with limited healthcare resources.”
Technology’s Impact on Productivity 06/23/2008
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I believe that innovation is the catalyst of capitalism. Capital investment chases ideas that deliver a return on investment while solving a problem, want or need. Fortunes are made based on dramatic new ideas that improve life as we know it.
In the production environment, note: Ford’s production line, the pneumatic air hammer, plastic injection molding, computer aided design and manufacturing. Also note the acceleration of change today: the Internet, cell phones, Microsoft Windows, Google and the iPod.
The United States of America continues to lead the entire world into both freedom and prosperity through improved productivity. This is the key to wealth creation and lifting billions worldwide out of poverty.
The Wall Street Journal, June 11, 2008 article by Brian Wesbury: Change We Can Believe In Is All Around Us charts the impact. Wesbury makes the point, “America’s manufacturing output, as measured by the Federal Reserve, is up seven-fold since 1950, but manufacturing jobs as a share of all jobs have fallen to 10% from 30%.” The chart demonstrates the inverse relationship.

We’re mashing out 7 times more product using technology to improve efficiency! The jobs landscape in America is changing! We do it faster and better using machines and technology – with less people.
This technology revolution has created, “one of the greatest booms in wealth creation in world history,” Wesbury goes on to say.
The source of worldwide wealth, the highest standard of living in the history of the United States and lifting over a billion people worldwide from poverty in the last decade is technological progress. The engine of technological progress is innovation – capitalized new ideas.
Technology continues to drive the productive capacity of the United States and the world – creating wealth and worldwide prosperity.
i3 Business Solutions remains committed to applying technology to accelerate business productivity.
Interview: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos | GigaOM 06/17/2008
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GigaOM Interview: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos – GigaOM
Nick Carr contends that for Amazon, running a cloud computing service is core to its business in a way that it isn’t for, say, IBM, Sun, or HP. In a brief but illuminating video interview with Om Malik, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos underscores this point in describing the origins of Amazon Web Services. “Four years ago is when it started,” he says, “and we had enough complexity inside Amazon that we were finding we were spending too much time on fine-grained coordination between our network engineering groups and our applications programming groups. Basically what we decided to do is build a [set of APIs] between those two layers so that you could just do coarse-grained coordination between those two groups. Amazon is, you know, just a web-scale application.”
Web Presentations & Video Conversation Protocol 06/13/2008
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- Plan ahead – rehearse – prepare
- Confirm technology – connections – camera angles …
- Turn off IM, Office calendar, cell & office phones and other distractions
- Dress appropriately
- Be careful with mute and music on hold – both may fail or cause distractions for the entire online meeting.
Read the article for some entertaining stories about online gaffes we can all learn from.
Michael Ritsema