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How can CLOUD help my patients benefit from the most effective drugs and devices?

Whether they're sent by paper, fax, or computer, prescriptions put burdens on patients that CLOUD technology can relieve. Relying on patients to study and analyze long and confusing lists of what drugs they can and can't take together is simply dangerous. With CLOUD, there is no more fine print for patients to worry about at the pharmacy -- and more tools for pharmacists to use to contribute to safer drug regimens.

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Posts Tagged Internet

Cerf has the question… CLOUD has the answer

Jan 12

Posted by Gary in CLOUD Standards | No Comments

Cerf urges standards for cloud computing

In this recent Infoworld article, Vint Cerf, as always, asks the right question. The answer to his question is to return to the basics of the Internet that he created. The “inter-cloud” problem he described most recently at the Churchill Club stems from popular acceptance of HTML 15 years ago. While HTML sparked an Internet boom, it made people look at the Internet as a way to connect Web pages, not people.

Securing user data scattered among large numbers of Web silos is complex and consumes huge amounts of every users’ most valuable resource: time. The solution isn’t another identity standard or method for data portability. It’s a paradigm shift.

CLOUD’s technology standard is that shift. Read the rest of this entry »

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CLOUD Transcends Net Neutrality

Nov 3

Posted by Gary in CLOUD Standards | 3 Comments

Internet Renaissance Man Gordon Crovitz posits in his latest Wall Street Journal column, “Will the Internet Survive its 40th?” that it’s sometimes “wiser for mortals to stand aside and leave technology to advance at its own pace. After its first 40 years delivering freedom and abundance, the Web has earned the benefit of the doubt.”

CLOUD doesn’t take positions on legislation and regulation like “net neutrality,” but it agrees about the power of technology.

The power of the Internet comes from connecting people and democratizing access to content and conversations. Unfortunately, the importance of users isn’t fully considered in pending net neutrality legislation or Federal Communications Commission regulatory proposals. Users simply aren’t seen as potential participants in the ultimate decisions of legislators or regulators.

In any event, using technology like CLOUD’s Context Markup Language (CTML) to empower individuals to find the right balance of price, speed, and capacity for themselves will ultimately make the entire net neutrality debate obsolete.

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Reflections on Health 2.0 Conference: Day 1

Oct 7

Posted by Gary in CLOUD Health | No Comments

Payments. Meaningful use. Populations. Communities. For as many interesting ideas that were presented on day one at Health 2.0, these points of friction in the health value chain appear to be the barriers to change.

Much like HL7 and CDISC have only 15% adoption due to privacy concerns, these topics, payments especially, appear to be the elephants in the room at Health 2.0. Read the rest of this entry »

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Health 2.0 Conference: Health 2.0 Meet ME 1.0

Oct 2

Posted by Gary in CLOUD Health | No Comments

The Design Center concourse in San Francisco could not be a better venue for the upcoming Health 2.0 Conference.  For all of the debate that is raging about health care, reform, insurance companies and the rest, the issue at hand is really one of design.  The theme, User-Generated Healthcare, is itself a design issue.

Places of the Soul, by Christopher Day, makes the point that architecture must begin based on where the designed structure is to be placed.  As he notes in the book, studies have shown that there is strong correlation between recovery time at the hospital and patient view, with every leaf being ‘worth its weight in gold.’  Design matters.  The Health 2.0 team has architected an excellent agenda that looks at the design issue of the healthcare system from the perspective of the patient.  I am excited to be attending and look forward to the possibility of CLOUD presenting its new vision and language during the Human Centered Design Contest.

CLOUD believes that the Internet needs a new design, too, an architecture based on starting from a new place, the individual.  ME 1.0 looks forward to meeting Health 2.0 and engaging in a new blueprint for the future!

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Combining Health and the Vast Power of the Internet

Sep 29

Posted by Paul in CLOUD Health | No Comments

Advertising Age reports that the FDA will hold hearings on how drug companies use Web 2.0. And just in time, too, as the world marches toward Web 3.0. Don’t tell the FDA, but their regulations could be obsolete if Web users unite behind a new standard that puts individuals — not companies — in charge of their own data. CLOUD has published two papers on the standard as work to move from the Internet corporate Web paradigm to the Internet personal connection paradigm proceeds apace.

Consider this as you watch the FDA’s work in this area: Why limit improving health tools to the Web alone? The Internet’s power to connect people goes far beyond the browser paradigm. Check out CLOUD’s perspective from a higher altitude.

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