Comments for btw2.net http://www.btw2.net/blog sharing the digital experience Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:53:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 Comment on Mapping the Digital Divides - August 4, 2007 by russ http://www.btw2.net/blog/?p=150#comment-112 russ Sun, 05 Aug 2007 15:18:42 +0000 http://www.btw2.net/blog/?p=150#comment-112 Andy, Thanks for clarifying. You helped start a worthy effort. Russ Andy,

Thanks for clarifying. You helped start a worthy effort.

Russ

]]> Comment on Mapping the Digital Divides - August 4, 2007 by andy carvin http://www.btw2.net/blog/?p=150#comment-111 andy carvin Sun, 05 Aug 2007 14:18:35 +0000 http://www.btw2.net/blog/?p=150#comment-111 Actually, I no longer work for the Digital Divide Network. I was the founding editor in '99 and served as director until 2006, but now I work for National Public Radio. DDN is now coordinated by the staff at TakingITGlobal.org. Actually, I no longer work for the Digital Divide Network. I was the founding editor in ‘99 and served as director until 2006, but now I work for National Public Radio. DDN is now coordinated by the staff at TakingITGlobal.org.

]]> Comment on Illness and health care - obstacles too, oh my by Portfolio Life .net » Blog Archive » Your life is… about… um, what? http://www.btw2.net/blog/?p=147#comment-88 Portfolio Life .net » Blog Archive » Your life is… about… um, what? Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:08:46 +0000 http://www.btw2.net/blog/?p=147#comment-88 [...] and there is the post at btw2.net Illness and health care - obstacles too, oh my [...] […] and there is the post at btw2.net Illness and health care - obstacles too, oh my […]

]]> Comment on Steps to manage drug-resistant bacteria by RD Savage » I woke up this morning thinking about http://www.btw2.net/blog/?p=145#comment-84 RD Savage » I woke up this morning thinking about Sun, 29 Jul 2007 03:11:53 +0000 http://www.btw2.net/blog/?p=145#comment-84 [...] Steps to manage drug-resistant bacteria [...] […] Steps to manage drug-resistant bacteria […]

]]> Comment on How-To Fund Eldercare Technology by Peter http://www.btw2.net/blog/?p=125#comment-74 Peter Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:07:20 +0000 http://www.btw2.net/blog/?p=125#comment-74 Please replace "high" with "good" in the "cost to benefit" phrase. Some remedial adjective training is in order. Any tool giving better access to care is a good one. Tele-medicine by any means can have good value and effect. When there's access to a practitioner someplace, no doubt communication tools help span the distance. Some care may give better patient outcomes, on average, than no care at all. But the below average outcomes are a concern. Here's a robot. http://www.ecu.edu/dhs/news/newsstory.cfm?ID=321 Not sure I want a "predator" considering surgical intervention from afar. Lesser interventions can make good sense. "Went in for a trim. Came out with a circumcision." Please replace “high” with “good” in the “cost to benefit” phrase. Some remedial adjective training is in order.

Any tool giving better access to care is a good one. Tele-medicine by any means can have good value and effect. When there’s access to a practitioner someplace, no doubt communication tools help span the distance. Some care may give better patient outcomes, on average, than no care at all. But the below average outcomes are a concern.

Here’s a robot. http://www.ecu.edu/dhs/news/newsstory.cfm?ID=321
Not sure I want a “predator” considering surgical intervention from afar. Lesser interventions can make good sense.

“Went in for a trim. Came out with a circumcision.”

]]> Comment on How-To Fund Eldercare Technology by russ http://www.btw2.net/blog/?p=125#comment-73 russ Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:51:37 +0000 http://www.btw2.net/blog/?p=125#comment-73 Another way to consider it is: 1. Have an idea. 2. Think of ways to prove it as a product or method. 3. Begin with a significant but small, economic test. 4. Improve the product or method based on test and return to step 2. At some point, the ways to prove it require multiple tests in step 3. Another way to consider it is:
1. Have an idea.
2. Think of ways to prove it as a product or method.
3. Begin with a significant but small, economic test.
4. Improve the product or method based on test and return to step 2.

At some point, the ways to prove it require multiple tests in step 3.

]]> Comment on How-To Fund Eldercare Technology by Peter http://www.btw2.net/blog/?p=125#comment-71 Peter Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:21:59 +0000 http://www.btw2.net/blog/?p=125#comment-71 Anecdotal reports typically sound wonderful. "Sometimes" everything works out fine. Good patient outcome, high cost to benefit, everyone is happy. Yet, trustworthy measures are rooted in numbers. The good outcomes need to be statistically significant to be comparable or even worth comparison. While $50k to to$100k may have been saved i this instance, what about the other instances? Anecdotal reports typically sound wonderful. “Sometimes” everything works out fine. Good patient outcome, high cost to benefit, everyone is happy.
Yet, trustworthy measures are rooted in numbers. The good outcomes need to be statistically significant to be comparable or even worth comparison.

While $50k to to$100k may have been saved i this instance, what about the other instances?

]]> Comment on Specialty Care for the Older Patient by Portfolio Life .net » Blog Archive » I posted some health comments http://www.btw2.net/blog/?p=124#comment-69 Portfolio Life .net » Blog Archive » I posted some health comments Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:34:27 +0000 http://www.btw2.net/blog/?p=124#comment-69 [...] Specialty Care for the Older Patient [...] […] Specialty Care for the Older Patient […]

]]> Comment on online community action groups by David Bank http://www.btw2.net/blog/?p=96#comment-60 David Bank Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:15:32 +0000 http://www.btw2.net/blog/?p=96#comment-60 <p>Hello. Wanted to point your readers to <a href="www.encore.org" rel="nofollow">www.encore.org</a>, a new site from Civic Ventures that is all about the development of "encore careers" for the greater good -- post midlife and pre-retirement jobs and other opportunities for aging baby boomers. Encore.org is connected to Marc Freedman's new book, <i>Encore: Finding Work that matters in the Second Half of Life</i>.</p> Hello. Wanted to point your readers to http://www.encore.org, a new site from Civic Ventures that is all about the development of “encore careers” for the greater good — post midlife and pre-retirement jobs and other opportunities for aging baby boomers. Encore.org is connected to Marc Freedman’s new book, <i>Encore: Finding Work that matters in the Second Half of Life</i>.

]]> Comment on ok russ, all this “news” about digital divides - why? by btw.net » Blog Archive » nested abstractions http://www.btw2.net/blog/?p=102#comment-58 btw.net » Blog Archive » nested abstractions Sun, 01 Jul 2007 14:37:08 +0000 http://www.btw2.net/blog/?p=102#comment-58 [...] over at btw2.net, I discuss why I spend so much time yakking about digital divides. ok russ, all this “news” about digital divides - why? [...] […] over at btw2.net, I discuss why I spend so much time yakking about digital divides. ok russ, all this “news” about digital divides - why? […]

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