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The Skinny on Electronic Medical Records
Sun, May 03, 2009
There’s a $19B silver bullet in the Obama stimulus package that provides incentives for doctors and hospitals to move to Electronic Medical Records and the deal is pretty sweet.
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Less is More - How Digital Trumped Analog
Mon, Mar 23, 2009
When you tap your feet to a Beyonce song, it is easy to forget that her voice went through a long journey before reaching your ears. A single three minute track like “Single Ladies” gets translated into several millions of 0’s and 1’s sitting on a hard drive or an MP3 player, as opposed to a few grooves on a vinyl disk or a few inches of a cassette tape. Why then is the world moving away from analog to digital?
Teleology of Telecommunications Technology - UNIX by Accident
Mon, Dec 15, 2008
Contrary to popular opinion, technology does not always follow a purposeful path of evolution. Spectacularly successful inventions have often been solutions in search of a problem. UNIX on the other hand is a case all by itself.
New World Order: Inside the Digital Supply Chain - Part 1
Mon, Nov 03, 2008
While everyone raves about the digital economy, a very complex layer of plumbing just under the surface makes it all work. In the first of a series, we peel back a few layers of the onion.