Last Saturday, our family saw the San Francisco Symphony perform Oscar winning composer Tan Dun's music live for the martial arts movie trilogy --Heroes, Crouching Lion Hidden Dragon and The Banquet. It is a very unique visual and musical experience to watch a movie on a big screen while the sound track is coming from [...]
The little spacecraft that flew for 10 years crossing millions of miles in space, bounced on a comet hurtling 84,000 mph, transmits tons of data for 64 hours, finally tells its handlers that it needs to take a nap. Hitting any kind of target after 10 years in space is an amazing feat by itself, [...]
Black Book polled users of 224 operations - public and private exchanges - and here are the vendors ranking first in their categories: EHR / HIT-based HIE: Cerner Government Payer and Commercial Insurer Centric HIEs: Orion Health Core Private Enterprise HIE Solutions: Aetna Medicity Core Public HIEs Systems: Intersystems Other vendors that scored well in specific key HIE performance [...]
By Judy Chan, MPH It is unconscionable that politicians are allowed to create their own laws without knowledge and expert counsel. Quarantining the nurse, Kaci Hickox, who returned from West Africa after treating Ebola patients was a crime. It was inexcusable and not supported by medical facts. She was treated like a criminal. The New [...]
Isolation ward in Liberian clinic. Glenna Gordon for The Wall Street Journal It's fascinating to watch the Ebola scare unfold with the minute-to-minute news coverage. The disease that has killed thousands in West Africa and now has its first case in the U.S. It is a case study in how quickly disease can [...]
Increasing your brainpower is gaining popularity these days. Learning is key to keeping brain cells from deteriorating. It can take place in mental or physical forms. There are many games and puzzles to sharpen your brain such as Lumosity, but it does not combine the physical with the mental skills. A new sport at any [...]
It was a very sad day when Robin Williams died, a great comedian and an extremely nice person by all accounts. He made us laugh. He made us happy. We live in San Francisco and saw him in a small Chinese restaurant on Clement Street having lunch with his son many years ago. It was [...]
There will be more connected devices than people in 2014 according to the United Nations. One billion gigabytes = 1 exabyte--that's 18 zeroes. The average smartphone use equals 1 Gb per month. One exabyte would hold 100,000 times the printed material in the Library of Congress. Currently, there is extremely high interest in data - [...]
President Obama went on the comedy Between Two Ferns to promote Healthcare.gov for young people. He asks Zach if he has heard of the Affordable Care Act. Zach's facial response displays suspicion. The President educates Zach saying that no one is invincible and that health insurance cannot be denied because of pre-existing conditions. The exchange [...]
A bleeding gash in the back of his head and in a wheelchair, my father and his caregiver were trapped in the elevator of their condo en route to the emergency room. Down to the Lobby level and the doors would not open. Then, it rapidly ascended to the 19th floor all on its own. [...]
