Application “Test”: 21.62 Mbps flow from the Chinese University of Hong Kong to University of California Santa Cruz Genome Bioinformatics via @gloriadus #viz

Application “Test”: 7.68 Mbps from US NIH National Library of Medicine, Bethesada, US to Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore via @gloriadus #viz

Application “Test”: 7.66 Mbps Nanyang Technological University, Center for IT Services in Singapore to University of California San Diego via @gloriadus #viz

The Medical Banking Project (now part of HIMSS) studied this question for quite awhile. I blogged a series of topics awhile back ( http://www.mhimss.org/blog/author/5646 ; http://edodds.blogs.com/mblog/ ; http://blog.conmergence.com/work/ ) and the HIMSS World Bank Task Force did a recent whitepaper (January 2013 – The Healthcare Payments Hub: A New Paradigm for Funds and Data Transfers in Healthcare – http://www.himss.org/ResourceLibrary/ResourceDetail.aspx?ItemNumber=16607 ). John Casillas could add a lot but the things that stand out to me are: 1) Insurers have to be willing to reimburse for eHealth, telehealth, video consults, etc. As CMS and other fedgov depts have taken steps in this direction private insurers will follow. 2) Paper needs to be taken out of the administrative process (standards for matching 835 and 837s, etc.); last stat I heard was about 94% of paper claims had to be followed up with a phone call (not sure how current that stat is). 3) In TN, for historical legal reasons, nearly all state funds have gone to folks with an intellectual disability leaving very few resources for those who have a developmental disability. Gov Haslam and the legislature have turned that around lately but a lot more needs to be done unless we want it to remain an “open secret” that if you acquire a disability, we’ll do our dead level best to dump you on the other side of any state line. My wife Deana can get anyone more details — see http://ucpmidtn.org 4) The recent TN Broadband Summit spotlighted the reality the folks who can benefit most from technology (I’m thinking health over IP here) tend to be in those places where incumbent broadband providers can least afford to build out. The FCC e-rate program could theoretically help but right now it isn’t structured optimally. We’ll have to see what happens after Genachowski and McDowell are replaced. 5) The possibilities for economic development along these are stifled by tax structure (in just abut every state) because unless a project (which might hire many knowledge workers, in this case, healthcare related) actually causes someone to build or buy real estate (the way we capture revenue of the type that shows up in local econ dev employees metrics — and hence the way they keep their job, earn a bonus) it doesn’t count as “real revenue”. So you can have a situation like the Gig City where everyone could be using a software like BOINC or CPUsage for distributed computing on a superfast grid to build Glenn Ricart’s (US-Ignite) neighborhood supercomputer for medical research to cure cancer (say sponsored St. Judes) but under the current tax scheme that’s not a “real business”. Does any of this make sense to anyone else? 6) Obviously, I haven’t even touched mPayments coupled with mHealth. I realize I hop around here a bit from topic to topic — but maybe it will get a discussion a bit further down the path.

UPDATE: Just saw this – After FDA’s mobile medical apps final guidance, what’s next? – http://mobihealthnews.com/21252/after-fda%E2%80%99s-mobile-medical-apps-final-guidance-what%E2%80%99s-next/

There is opportunity for providers, payers, banks, financial networks, and healthcare clearinghouses to establish an interoperable healthcare payments “hub” that enables Straight Through Processing of healthcare financial transactions This hub is intended to demonstrate bottom line financial advantage to each of the counterparties and/or stakeholders involved.

Here.

Powerpoint needs to be done in epiphaneo video format: youtube, vimeo, facebook – others (as many as feasible)
possible TED talk

Daily Work, Daily Pay Same Day Fair Day’s Pay – daily labor daily wages

WHAT IS HONORED (VALUED) IN A SOCIETY IS RECOGNIZED (AWARDED, PAID)
Honr – Pauline NT principle, OT based – Honor (pay for the value of) Parents, Teachers, Teaching Elders
Add illustrative verses (below)

CURRENT WORLD PARADIGM

NO METRICS = SOCIAL IGNORANCE ; BIASED METRICS (necessary data excluded to reinforce status quo structural inequities)

economic injustice is obscured because many metrics which describe tasks performed which are necessary to society are unmeasured and uncompensated due to controlled taxation system [ie allowable deductions, disallowable deduction] of the dominant class

example – why can I declare my currency gift to a nonprofit organization but not my labor (voluteering)? If we actually measured the total societal impact, it would have to be reflected in state and federal budgets (UN, foreign aid, etc. too)

example – prison industrial complex – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Jim_Crow poor “criminal caste”

1% backed governments, banking debt system, war banksters, UK rehypothecation ponzi scheme

Workers compensation is falsely framed as salary and employer-based benefits
(BENEFITs are just reduced salaries)

Should be paid immediately in real-time entirely in digitally liquid currencies (don’t illegally/immorally sacrifice float to banks and employers).

The point is not alternative currencies (necessarily)

Flattr button on not just blog posts and blogs but on online activity logs for every kind of activity
Quora, Wikipedia, Amazon Reviews (ANYTHING which provides value add — whether recognized by society or not)

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flattr/

pay (tip) an employee at a restaurant but not at an employee at Wal-Mart (folks complain they are undercompensated, denied benefits

Relational Tithing

only way a good teacher gets direct payment in THE PUBLIC SYSTEM requires that a book publisher gets a cut or a college, university or for profit school administration gets a cut

“We” say we are for MARKET BASED SOLUTIONS and then deny the customers in the market an avenue to pay for anything the dominant class (Government, current “ruling class” [ in US: corporatism, war banksters ] disallow

NEW WORLD PARADIGM

Social Movement –

Doctr [ used to pay in chicken, pig or cheese ]
Mentr
Instructr
Teachr
Stay at Home Mothr / Fathr
Family Care Givr

Seers, Vizrs

EVERYONE gets an online task log populated with tasks which can be paid for immediately upon view
[taxation could be included as well where applicable by law]

Distribution Allies
Noam Chomsky. Max Keiser, Robert Reich, (Carbon Credit Al Gore), Al Franken, Pete De Fasio, Elizabeh Warren, Pat Schroeder?

Which Foundations would fund, if any?

# # # #
Bimetalism taught us that “the people’s best interest” is served by having multiple competing and complementary currencies

Bimetalism – needed for liquidity – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimetallism

so Flattr and Paypal and Bitcoin and proprietary wallets must be an Honr button/platform which can be an INTERFACE to other underlying platforms

Need to have more than one currency or liquidity is sacrificed
Wlliam Jennings Bryan
will not be crucified by cross of gold
desilverization was a tactic of market rigging

Max Keiser and Antal Fekete segment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn-rTs2zSo4
# # # #

There’s a brave new world filled with entertainment, news and tools made by everyone, and not just the big guys. This new world deserves your support.

Pick how much you’d like to spend per month. Then, whenever you see a Flattr button on a website that you like, click it. We count up all of your clicks at the end of each month and distribute your monthly spend between everything you’ve clicked on. Simple, right?

Flattr was founded to help people share money, not only content. Before Flattr, the only reasonable way to donate has been to use Paypal or other systems to send money to people. The threshold for this is quite high. People would just ignore sending donations if it wasn’t for a really important cause. Sending just a small sum has always been a pain in the ass. Who would ever even login to a payment system just to donate €0.01? And €10 was just too high for just one blog entry we liked…

Flattr solves this issue. When you’re registered to flattr, you pay a small monthly fee. You set the amount yourself. In the end of the month, that fee is divided between all the things you flattered. You’re always logged in to the account. That means that giving someone some flattr-love is just a button away. And you should! Clicking one more button doesn’t add to your fee. It just divides the fee between more people! Flattr tries to encourage people to share. Not only pieces of content, but also some money to support the people who created them. With love!

Flattr requires an account at flattr.com!

# # # #

Standardized, formalized taxonomy (taxation enabled maybe) need for crowd sourced metrics and stats vs. the Department of Labor (biased by not including “traditionally uncompensated labor”)

# # # #

New inflation real time inflation index, internet of things

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Theological basis and illustrations

Jesus and Korban Mark 7:11-12

Romans 4:4 If you’re a hard worker and do a good job, you deserve your pay; we don’t call your wages a gift

Galatians 6:6. Anyone who receives instruction in the word must share {Κοινωνείτω} all good things with his instructor.

1 CORINTHIANS 9
3My defense to those who examine me is this:4Do we not have a right to eat and drink?5Do we not have a right to take along a believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?6Or do only Barnabas and I not have a right to refrain from working?7Who at any time serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Or who tends a flock and does not use the milk of the flock?

8I am not speaking these things according to human judgment, am I? Or does not the Law also say these things?9For it is written in the Law of Moses, “YOU SHALL NOT MUZZLE THE OX WHILE HE IS THRESHING.” God is not concerned about oxen, is He?10Or is He speaking altogether for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the crops.11If we sowed spiritual things in you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?12If others share the right over you, do we not more? Nevertheless, we did not use this right, but we endure all things so that we will cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.13Do you not know that those who perform sacred services eat the food of the temple, and those who attend regularly to the altar have their share from the altar?14So also the Lord directed those who proclaim the gospel to get their living from the gospel.

1st Timothy 5:17
17The elders who rule well are to be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching.18For the Scripture says, “YOU SHALL NOT MUZZLE THE OX WHILE HE IS THRESHING,” and “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”

Andy writes:

Due to the fragmentation of technology across the automotive industry, developers are still reluctant to work in the automotive space. So, how can we simplify the process and draw developers to an automotive platform?

We asked this question to Konstantin Zervas, Service Enablement, Ericsson. He explains how opening APIs across industries, such as automotive, utilities and telecom, will enable a single interface for developers to work across different devices and hardware, streamline app development and increase the viability of automotive apps.

How do you think we can attract app developers to the automotive platform?

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EVENT: Crowdsourcing Development Solutions for a Smarter Future
DATE: Thursday, February 28, 2013
TIME: 08:30 to 10:00 AM EST (DC time), 12:30 to 14:00 GMT
LOCATION: Washington, D.C.

Three-quarters of the world’s inhabitants have access to a mobile phone today, prices of computing and mobile internet devices are plunging, and social media tools are nearly universal. The potential that holds for global development is immense. Information & Communication Technology (ICT) approaches or “smart solutions” are already recognized as critical to solving the development challenges of tomorrow, including using technology to leverage the power of collective intelligence and crowdsourcing expertise and ideas from around the world.

On February 28, join United States Chief Technology Officer Todd Park and other global experts for a live-streamed conversation about the role of technology in a “smarter future.” The event is part of the World Bank’s ICT Solutions Day, which engages decision makers and experts in an open, collaborative process of developing ICT-enabled approaches to development challenges.

Participants:

Todd Park, Chief Technology Officer, United States
Rachel Kyte, Vice President, Sustainable Development, World Bank
Jean-Philbert Nsengimana, Minister of ICT and Youth, Rwanda
Edward Omane Boamah, Minister of Communications, Ghana
Bikesh Kurmangaliyeva, Deputy Chairperson of the Board, “Zerde” National ICT Holding, Kazakhstan
Shantayanan Devarajan, Chief Economist, Africa region, World Bank
Andrew Stott, former CTO and Deputy CIO, UK Government

Read more in these 2012 World Bank reports: Information and Communications for Development 2012: Maximizing Mobile and The Transformational Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Africa.

Follow the event on Twitter using hashtag: #wblive

When: February 27, 28 and March 1, 2013

Description:

You are cordially invited to watch a live webcast of the upcoming ICT events at the World Bank:

Cloud Computing Masterclass on February 27,
Incorporating Design Thinking Approaches in Development Projects on February 27,
ICT Solutions Day: Co-Creating a Smarter Future on February 28,
Open Data Readiness Assessment Briefing on March 1,
Urban Living Labs as the Engine for Smart Cities on March 1,
Digital Inclusiveness through Local Content Creation Workshop on March 1.

Submit your comments and questions via Twitter (Hashtags: #wbICT and #SmartDev) or our Chat Room (via Adobe Connect) @ https://worldbankva.adobeconnect.com/ict

1. Cloud Computing Masterclass
February 27, 09:00am – 11:30am Washington time

Speaker: Andrew Stott, former Deputy CIO, UK Government; Senior Consultant, ICT Unit

Description:

Masterclass session – What is cloud? What are the benefits? What are global leaders doing?
Cloud clinic – 40 reasons against Cloud and how these can be swamped
Debate and brainstorming session – How to get a cloud initiative running including cloud readiness assessment.

Live Webcast / Recorded Session: www.worldbank.org/edevelopment/live and http://streaming2.worldbank.org:8080/vvflash/extlive2

2. Incorporating Design Thinking Approaches in Development Projects
February 27, 12:30pm – 02:00pm Washington time

Speaker: Mikko Koria, Development Director, IDBM Program Aalto University School of Economics

Description:
All across the world, higher education, industries, public sector, and users are linking to each other into innovation ecosystems. How can these collaborations that now include users as a critical component help while designing Bank operations? Professor Mikko Koria, Director of the International Business Design Management program at Aalto University (Finland) will share with us why these collaborations matter in human and business development, why we should consider them as an approach towards project design, and how we can leverage its design thinking principles as an approach to problem solving for better project preparation and policy design.

Live Webcast / Recorded Session: http://streaming2.worldbank.org:8080/vvflash/extlive2

3. ICT Solutions Day: Co-Creating a Smarter Future
February 28, 08:30am – 06:00pm Washington time

Smart Solutions is about identifying and scaling innovative, ICT-enabled approaches to development challenges. In this day-long event we will leverage the best global thinking to explore the power of collective intelligence and the latest technology enablers to co-create smart solutions across the sectors. Selected countries will present their challenges and the audience together with experts will engage into design thinking – a client-driven, open, collaborative process of building up meaningful ICT-enabled solutions that will address the challenges in a new way. See a schedule and description at http://go.worldbank.org/J3HCU23B50.

Live Webcast / Recorded Session: http://live.worldbank.org/crowd-sourcing-development-solutions-us-cto-todd-park and http://streaming2.worldbank.org:8080/vvflash/extlive2
Join our microvolunteering and crowdsourcing efforts for smarter solutions via LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Open-Development-Technology-Alliance-137043?gid=137043

4. Open Data Readiness Assessment Briefing
March 1, 09:00am – 10:40am Washington time

Speakers: Andrew Stott and Jeff Kaplan, Senior Consultants, ICT Unit

Description:
The World Bank has become a leader in Open Data both through its own experience and work with some of the world’s pioneering Open Data initiatives. Governments at all levels are starting to see Open Data as a powerful tool for transformation of their countries into dynamic, innovative economies, with modern, citizen-centered public sectors and vibrant ICT markets.

The Development Data Group (DECDG), the ICT Sector Unit (TWICT) and the World Bank Institute (WBI) have partnered to help client countries use Open Data for development. As part of this global initiative, DECDG and TWICT have been awarded a grant from the Trust Fund for Statistical Capacity Building to support the implementation of Open Data initiatives in client countries. Under this initiative, we are able to support a limited number of Open Data Readiness Assessments to diagnose what a government need to do to make its data truly open and to use open data to improve public services and government performance and transparency, as well as to create jobs and catalyze innovation throughout an economy.

The World Bank’s Open Government Data Working Group has recently developed an ‘Open Data Readiness Assessment’ (ODRA) tool for conducting an action-oriented assessment of the readiness of a government – or even an individual agency – to evaluate, design and implement an Open Data initiative. The tool is added to the ‘Open Data Toolkit’ published at data.worldbank.org/ogd. It is made freely available for others to adapt and use. We invited Andrew Stott and Jeff Kaplan, who are the main authors of the tool, to provide a briefing on the methodology to those interested to make use of the tool and share the early findings from the ongoing assessment to Ulyanovsk Oblast of Russia, the first such assessment using this methodology.

You can access and contribute comments on the ODRA tool online at the following link: http://personal.crocodoc.com/7yQvCzX

Live Webcast / Recorded Session – http://streaming2.worldbank.org:8080/vvflash/extlive2

5. Urban Living Labs as the Engine for Smart Cities
March 1, 11:00am – 01:00pm Washington time

Speaker: Jarmo Eskelinen, Chair, ENOLL/CitySDK

Description:
What are smart cities anyway? Mr. Jarmo Eskalinen, Head of Forum Virium in Helsinki and CEO of the European Network of Living Labs will share with us their approach, one that creates better collaborations between citizens and governments through technology; and one where living labs become the orchestrators of such ecosystem.

Live Webcast / Recorded Session – http://streaming2.worldbank.org:8080/vvflash/extlive2

6. Digital Inclusiveness through Local Content Creation Workshop
March 1, 02:00pm – 04:00pm Washington time

Speaker: Tony Simard, President and Founder of Boite à Innovation

Description:
The workshop will present innovative and user-friendly technologies developed by the Boîte à innovations in African languages Fon, Yoruba, Baatonou, Wolof, Pulaar in addition to French and English. Boîte à innovations-a Canadian company with branches and partners in Cotonou, Libreville and Dakar- uses integrated approaches of literacy and V-learning to develop training modules and user friendly applications in a number of key areas including micro-finance, computer science and market surveys. The approach of Boite à innovation is an interesting example of content creation adapted to African languages and cultures and aimed at enhancing confidence and creating a digital culture for all.

Live Webcast / Recorded Session – http://streaming2.worldbank.org:8080/vvflash/extlive2

From: Susan E. Campbell, Committed Member of the (open source) ONC Longitudinal Coordination of Care Community-led initiative

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) is seeking your participation in the S&I Framework Initiative,  Longitudinal Coordination of Care (LCC) Workgroup (WG). The LCC WG is a community-led initiative charged with supporting and advancing interoperable electronic health record (EHR) systems and patient-centric interoperable health information exchange across the Long-term and Post-Acute Care (LTPAC) spectrum. Over the past year, the LCC WG has been engaged in developing a standardized patient assessment tool and refining standards and implementation guidance for consideration in Meaningful Use Stage 3. More specifically, the LCC WG and its three sub-workgroups are addressing the following challenges:

1. Absence of an interoperable, longitudinal care plan which aligns, supports and informs care delivery regardless of setting or service provider
2. Lack of clear and harmonized terminologies and definitions for care plans
3. Lack of robust, interoperable EHR systems across the LTPAC spectrum with the ability to electronically exchange clinical information
4. Underserved community with multiple care settings and needs that exceed exchange of clinical information

Key accomplishments (with hyperlinks) of the LCC WG include:

LCC Use Case. Outlines three scenarios for health information exchange between:

1. an acute care hospital and home health agency (HHA)
2. a skilled nursing facility (SNF) and the Emergency Department (ED)
3. a Physician and a HHA. Two of the scenarios center on the Home Health Plan of Care (HH-POC), based on the CMS 485 form.

Transitions of Care and HH-POC Data Set. Builds from the LCC Use Case and identifies over 480 data elements needed by receiving clinicians to safely and appropriately care for patients at times of transitions of care.

Care Plan Glossary. Describes a key list of care plan terms, definitions and components to be considered
for MU stage 3.

The LCC WG is a community-led initiative that is mainly funded and driven by public and private sector partners, each of which is truly committed to overcoming the interoperability challenges in long-term and post-acute care transitions. These dedicated groups include my company, Care Management Professionals.  We hope it could also include the Case Management Society of America (CMSA) and your own firm, Case Management Innovators.

Given the current timeline to respond to the Health IT Policy Committee (HITPC) Stage 3 Meaningful Use Request for Comment (RFC), the LCC WG has hosted a series of webinars to give key stakeholder groups additional information on the current recommendations and questions related to care plans and other key LTPAC priority areas including transitions of care and advance directives. The LCC WG is focused on gathering and consolidating LTPAC community comments and feedback on the existing recommendations in order to develop a unified and targeted response to influence Stage 3 MU recommendations.

We encourage you to review one of the four presentations and recordings of these webinars which are now available on the LCC wiki page here. The LCC WG wants to ensure all LTPAC stakeholder groups have the opportunity to shape Stage 3 MU recommendations and ultimately influence the development of a collaborative model of care that encompasses a longitudinal and comprehensive care plan.

An initial draft of LCC WG comments is now available here for
your review and additional input.

We also invite you to participate in the LCC WG weekly calls. The
schedule and webex information for these calls are available here.

Sincerely,

Susan

Susan E.
Campbell, PhD, RN-BC(IN), CPHQ, CCM, CIC

Care Management Professionals

Committed LCC Committee Member

Evelyn Gallego, ONC S&I LCC Initiative Coordinator

Dr. Larry Garber, LTPAC SWG Lead

Dr. Terry O’Malley, LTPAC SWG Lead

Dr. Bill Russell, LCP SWG Lead

Sue Mitchell, LCP SWG & PAS SWG Lead

Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis, the author of The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy, spoke about debt and the global economy. He argued against the existence of a debt crisis in the global economy or in individual countries, asserting that the problem instead was a a crisis of too much savings “with no place to go.”
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Crisesa

Colleagues are good things. Jim Long and the programmers at GM Spring Hill Manufacturing (Compuware, EDS, GM, Xerox before my time) taught me how to divide a software problem up into modules (functional concepts in classic VB); Mike Mancour and Lonnie Harriford how the same approach can be applied well to team programming. Greg Wernke taught me to QA with diligence. John Casillas pointed me in the open source direction with a comment while working with the late John Hardin on the COMBAT initiative. Mark Charleton crystallized the business case for adopting frameworks. Freddie O’Connell mentioned he thought of me when he saw an API story, a theme which continues to resonate. David Siegel, John Hagel, John Seely Brown, Kingsley Idehen have enlightened me re: the Pull approach. There are so many more of you (too numerous to mention) which make each day land in the hope side of the ledger vs. despair. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and thanks for the gifts you’ve already given me.

He’s only 22 and already a billionaire – at least in Uganda where he lives. IT student Abdu Sekalala has made a fortune designing mobile phone Apps. His applications have rivalled some of the world’s most popular platforms in downloads. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ABDU SEKALALA, DEVELOPER SAYING: “We have word book which is a dictionary and the Tutu translate which is basically a translator and then there is world sports which is a sports application for soccer fans.” He’s developed nine internationally recognised Apps. Wordbook is among the most successful. It earns him 1.25 dollars everytime it’s downloaded. So far that’s over 300,000 times – making him some 375,000 U.S. dollars. Africa is the world’s fastest growing telecoms market and Abdu got his big break last year after taking a Nokia training course. The mobile phone giant now sells Abdu’s Apps in its specialist Ovi store. Agatha Gikunda is Nokia’s Head of Apps in East Africa. (SOUNDBITE) (English) AGATHA GIKUNDA, NOKIA HEAD OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS, EAST AFRICA SAYING: “Africa is definitely the next frontier. Developers here have a huge opportunity that they have never ever had before to create businesses that require very little start up capital. They are already trained in development so we then take them to the next step to train them in the development for a mobile phone and all you need is your computer and your idea, you publish your application for free, you select which countries around the world and that is it.” Abdu is now mentoring others and says his greatest achievement is a free App called ‘Uganda Theme’. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ABDU SEKALALA, DEVELOPER SAYING: “In the first week of its launch it became number three in the the most downloaded things in the world, that is when I felt like this is my number one of everything that I developed, this is it, this is what is going to make my mark.” Abdu is still studying IT at college. But with a steady income he doesn’t have to worry about finding a proper job when he leaves. Hayley Platt, Reuters.