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Archives for 2003
This week — from the interactive future to the meetings of today
I’ll be doing a talk tomorrow at Sheridan College on the topic of “Multimedia Pioneering” and entrepreneurialism for a group of post-graduate students in a small, informal get together. Then, at the end of the week, I’ll be in San Antonio, Texas, keynoting the Dynamic Meetings conference.
Online health care as a way to cope with looming crisis
I’ve been suggesting for years that the Internet-connected universe of the future will provide an opportunity for more home-care, helping to alleviate the shortage of critical-care beds that will emerge as the population ages and health-care funds dry up. It’s slowly becoming a reality ….. with an announcement by Menem ….
They’ve just launched “a new service Tuesday that will allow patients with diabetes to send their glucose readings to their doctors online.”
That’s precisely the thing I’ve been speaking about at health care conferences and in various articles and books through the last decade, such as “IT and healthcare: more than a marriage of convenience.”
The Wall Street Journal noted in an article, “Normally, diabetics visit their doctors every three to six months to have their blood-glucose levels checked. The new tool allows patients to load blood-glucose levels stored on their meters on to a secure server, which is then downloaded by their doctors. While it isn’t meant to replace the occasional face-to-face checkup, it would give patients the option of avoiding a routine visit, said Ed Fotsch, chief executive officer of Medem , based in San Francisco.”
My digital life — bumps along the way
Update 2/10/03 : HP has fixed the problem — see my posting on this matter. I’m up to 12,000 photos scanned — this is a great product — all you need is the new software!!!!
I’ve set off on a project to digitize all of the 5,000+ photos I’ve taken since 1987 …. and bought a new HP ScanJet 5500c to do the job. It has an automatic photo feeder built in and works well ….. but …..
The problem is with the software design. You can stack in a bunch of pictures, and it will auto-feed each one and scan it. This way you can do 30 or 40 photos at a time.
But some software-engineer-bozo wrote the program so that each photo is sent to a temporary file as soon as it is scanned. Do a bunch of pictures, and a bunch of temporary files are created. And then, when the last photo is scanned, those temporary files are then copied into your main photo directory. But Windows inevitably can’t handle this and generates a file error — “”An error occurred saving the images to the chosen file location”” — so that instead of getting 30 or 40 photos, you get maybe 5 or so. The rest are lost in file-copy heaven somewhere.
Turns out others have had this problem — as seen on an Amazon.com review: “But the biggest problem I had with the scanner was that when the scanner scans through a stack of pictures, it will scan every picture and once all are scanned, then it sends them to the computer. Frequently, I would scan a stack at 600 dpi, and at 600 dpi it takes a considerable amount of time, the scanning program would mess up in the middle of the transfer, and you’d have to rescan half of the stack.” I’m not even scanning at 600dpi, I’m doing 300dpi!
HP has a nice story out about how it is building the base for the digital home of the future. Sure would be nice if they made workable product.
Why can’t they write the dang software so that as soon as it is scanned, it is saved in the permanent file?
I’m so frustrated with the product I’m close to returning it.
Why can’t companies design and deliver on the promises they make with their product?
Stick to your guns
10 years ago, I spoke at a telecom conference, and suggested that 10 years out, most phone calls would be routed through the technology of the Internet. I was almost hooted out of the room with catcalls for making such a ridiculous assertion ….. now comes news that AT&T will invest $3billion upgrading its system so it’s based on ….. the technology of the Internet. It’s the last of the three big three to make such an announcement. Lesson learned — when making predictions, stick to your guns, and don’t let derision get to you!
Making a career from ketchup!
It’s getting habit forming, talking about ketchup bottles on stage. Here I am during the start of my keynote for the American Payroll Association Conference.
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