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The power of CLOUD comes not only from its ability to bring together ME across your various life domains from health to education to finance and beyond but its ability to put you back in the center of your health decisions. In the midst of the national debate over healthcare, we can not lose sight of the fact that health is about you. ME 1.0 can help both you and the healthcare system achieve that goal.

To address the vexing issues of privacy, security and data and their impact on issues from corporate actions to securities to payment systems and beyond, we must reweave the fabric of the Internet. The Internet is not an electronic courier service, and without physical locations, my identity and data are part of a fabric and not a specific location.  Our use of verbs like move, send and log-in are clear indicators of how we are trapped by our current 2-dimensional view of the Internet. CLOUD's evolving contextual markup language provides the framework for this new fabric for finance.

The power of CLOUD comes not only from its ability to bring together ME across your various life domains from education to finance to health and beyond but its ability to put you back in the center of a lifelong learning paradigm. As the immunizations white paper at health.cloudinc.org makes clear, ME 1.0 not only empowers control substantial changes in learning but integrates it into a much broader CLOUD.

Bringing CLOUD's new language to our interactions with government will unleash the power of meGovernment and not just eGovernment. Current approaches to eGovernment simply substitute blue links on a web page for the old blue pages in the phone book. A language for ME can change this, while simultaneously embedding transparency into the fabric of governance and government globally.

The ultimate power of CLOUD will be expressed through our creation of CTML (context markup language). As we begin the journey to ME 1.0 and CTML, this section of the CLOUD website will discuss our perspectives on current standards, how CTML differs from these standards, how CTML would interact with these standards, as well as the multidimensional aspects of CTML. From WHO I Am™ to WHAT I Am™ to WHEN I Am™ to WHERE I Am™, the future of the Internet will be wrapped around people.

CLOUDCircles: Reweaving the Fabric of the Internet (How Do we Reach the Future?)

If you have been following CLOUD for a while, you know we have a big vision for the future of the Internet. You may be asking, how do we reach this new future and get there from here? As…

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A View from the CLOUD (HIMSS12): Hitting “All Fruit” on the Payline of Healthcare (Part 2)

After posting Part 1 of this Vegas-inspired View from the CLOUD yesterday, I went for a long 33 mile bike ride.  (I'm training for a 100 mile bike ride around Lake Tahoe as a fundraiser for LLS and…

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A View from the CLOUD (HIMSS12): Hitting “All Fruit” on the Payline of Healthcare (Part 1)

 

As I've "recovered" from the last week in Vegas, a few thoughts have crossed my mind. The first is that the HIMSS slot machine of great sessions, great people and great ideas came up a winner more…

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Are Privacy and Transparency on a Collision Course or Two Sides of the Same Coin? (Part 2 - Health Standards Guest Post)

Can privacy kill? Although we can likely scour recent news to find cases where leaked information at Facebook has led to some unfortunate outcomes, this question is particularly vital in the realm of health information.  The paper-based paradigm discussed…

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Is Health IT Trapped in the Physical Geography of Healthcare? (Part 1 - HealthStandards Guest Post)

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? This is an age old question, and in the evolving world of technology and social media, it can be updated and modified so as to be relevant to the topic of…

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Health 2.0 Show:  Joshua Seidman, ONC on “Meaningful Use”

Earlier this week, 51 healthcare groups wrote to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services asking for the current federal EHR adoption goals to be done "in a manner that will remove barriers to and promote the widespread…

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Digital Debacle for EHRs in Britain: The Challenge of Using 19th Century Thinking to Solve 21st Century Problems

Last week's Daily Telegraph in the UK reveals the challenges we will face with EHRs in the United States if we do not change our perspective on the solution before cementing 19th century approaches into rules at HHS. "

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2000 Pages:  Too Many or Too Few? (Update)

On October 29, 2009, the Speaker of the House of the 1st Session of the 111th Congress revealed the results of a tangled legislative process and unveiled a bill "to provide affordable, quality health care…

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Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO, Speaks on “Change By Design” on NPR

NPR's Rene Montagne interviewed Tim Brown this morning on the issue of healthcare and design.  Tim said that he would love to create "the electronic medical record of the future" and that many new solutions have to be designed…

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EHRs: There is no There There on the Internet

Just over a year ago at the Personal Democracy Forum in NYC, I posted an item to my personal blog at theendoflinearity.com on this topic, the idea that there are no destinations on the Internet.   Having wrestled with…

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