Make Congress live like the rest of us!

Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise. In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.  *Congressional [...]

Health Care Medical App – Benefit 3 Revenue Streams!

Finally, the long-awaited conclusion . . . Show me the Money! As mentioned earlier we are talking about a live database of symptoms, diagnostics, and treatments, access to specialized types of queries of such a database would be worth millions and would also inadvertently improve health care.  we will explore this by looking at a [...]

Health Care Medical App – Benefit 2 Improved Health Care

OK, here is where things start to speed up.  I will just list the tip of the iceberg as I am sure there will be many benefits I have not thought of yet that others will see as obvious.  To review we are now talking about a Medical App where your demographics and diagnostics are [...]

Health Care Medical App – Benefit 1 Cost Control

Wow, talk about timely.  I mentioned my long-held dream of how Health Care should go on-line and how such a system for other types of insurance lowered costs.  Now, I see there is a $100K prize for an app to do just part of what I suggested, which was to allow consumers to do comparison shopping for [...]

Smart Way to Lower Health Care Costs, Improve Health Care, and make some Money!

Ok this will likely be a series of relatively short posts as it would be a bit unwieldy to place all my thoughts on this here in one shot.  I have thought about this for a while now, since when WebMD and HIPPA were both still in discussion mode and not yet active.   The basic Wi-Fi technology [...]

Part of the The Facebook ballot idea is already here

If you read my prior blog I mentioned the need for an online report card for our elected representatives to see if they are truly working for the people who elected them.  Great news, it’s already here in part in the  US Congress Votes Database hosted by the Washington Post.  I hope they keep this up and wish it [...]

Facebook Ballots, a way to update your electoral status

OK, here is the follow on to Jury Pool Politicians that I promised.  There are those that will go to every polling opportunity and check every possible box, because they belive it is their patriotic duty to do so.  Unfortunately, in most case they place their duty to vote above knowledge about what they are voting on [...]

Jury Pool Politicians or FaceBook Ballots either way the system must be transparent!

Busy week. Ok as promised here is the first of many ideas to kick around for consideration, and improvement or correction. For as long has there have been Politicians and Politics there has been graft, corruption, abuse, cronyism, pork bellying and sheer stupidity on a grand scale.  Now that tougher times are upon us the general [...]

Hey, here’s an idea why don’t we worked together to solve problems?

You may have heard recently how Online gamers help UW researchers solve AIDS mystery. Basically, researchers had been working for 10 years using supercomputers to solve how to fold a protein in a particular fashion, with no luck (as you molecular biologists know, quaternary structure is so important in antigenic, and enzymatic interactions which are [...]