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CumulusMedical.com

..Noble beginnings. We wanted to be a resource. A premier resource for our neighbors. For our brothers and sisters in the wired community. Mostly mental health and spiritual problems from the treehouse porch but that's an opportunity for the songwriters. For the smart guys to figure out.

How could we be relevant in a space where there are ... umm..how many eHealth sites? I mean really... what's the problem? Can we make a business out of the noble proposition.

Early on it was apparent that it was hard to get important information to the doctor about us. The Patient. Suppose you had an emergency... Doctors flying blind. Electronic information was the answer and we had a vision... do a retinal scan and all your pertinent/vital info was there on a handheld for the people that would save your life perhaps... BUT. There are disclosure issues. Manipulation of data repository issues and on and on...Laws and Regs and Security. This all seems like another Insurance Company Conspiracy (in CAPS). We will figure out how to make the vision work...someday.

So we talked with patients and Doctors... Real Patients with potentially serious conditions. We continue to talk with them. We continue to monitor them on the net. Like the guy who was told that he had 3 months to live. "Go home and get your affairs in order". That was over 10 years ago. Or the young Lady who was told, "get prepared to spend the rest of your life in a wheelchair".

Lots of research... Months of it and we are almost ready to go live and here's what we know: a little anxiety in a nervous world is going to be reduced by a site that is geared to the newly diagnosed, the care giver, the traveler and other who are worried that "something is wrong"... there will be a community . A social network. eMR and pHR capabilities and some eHub (buy the stuff you need conveniently here) functionality. All supported by the "need". Not exactly what the initial idead was, but an idea that will help people based on what they look for on the Net and what we have been told would be a "really big help".

BTW, while we were putting this together, I had my own scare. Perhaps in sympathy... who knows. I get it. Up close and very personal.. a little medication and a super doctor. The online community was hard to use. We will solve that.

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CumulusMedical, Inc., is a Patient Health Record information portal allowing worldwide access to medical and healthcare related information, web-based subscriber healthcare management tools and, superior customer services. CumulusMedical, Inc. offers subscribers a secure web-based platform for personal and family health related data, online educational materials, interactive tools for physician/provider communications in addition to a robust social networking platform enabling exchange, debate and, empowering users to make better health and wellness decisions...

latest set-up and new firmware

so here's the new app set-up with some ideas... Gmail is good for composing because you can do it in landscape...the standard apps should all be able to operate that way. att needs to rollout a faster network and the wi-fi in this device needs to be speeded up as well .. the new firmware update seems to improve battery life at the expense of wi-fi availability.. MobileMe continues to be a disaster... error messages when I boot the main computer here telling me that the sync has stopped working and so forth...checking for a solution and closing the program.. email delivery continues to be slower (by far) that the Bberrys I used for years.. all that said, I really like the phone...the speakerphone could be louder and this and that... but the apps and functionality is great.. if I were responding to 100's of emails a day like the old days this would be nothing but a novelty... I remain surprised apple let this get out the door with so many bugs... landscape viewing needs to be added to ALL apps....especially email....did I already make that point???

Google/Remote on iPhone

this darn phone is just super... if i were doing 100's of email's a day I likely would get tired of the cramped touch-pad (coming from years of using a Blackberry)(u can do email via Gmail and on the web can use the landscape view to expand the keyboard), but here's the best thing I've found...apple makes an app called "remote" that let's you control your iTunes over your airport extreme/express network.... we have four systems in the house we live in now and I can control the music experience and apple TV from the phone with no real set-up and very little intelligence.... very cool.

The screenshot on the top is the remote view..just like iPod and below is Reader from the Google mobile app... nice ball game below... if you like slugfests!... Go Sox!

iPhone is here...some nice apps and shots...

...you hold down the home and power key briefly to take screen shots....

down the coast from cypress point..

...think i took this last winter...piccasa found it on a drive and I fooled with it a little (of course)...

... this is radio nowhere

... tryin' to make a connection with you....nice band Bruce...still kickin' it. Great to see.

link to videos on the Tube...

red sox nation in california

Man what a playoff season and series... funny when you grow up in ny and love all the ny and boston teams... easy to be a fan from CT where we moved when I was was young, but here in cali it's a little different... people never said anything about the red sox hats I wore when I played golf... until last week.. social issues aside... the sox are a team with a great manager.. ok owners and josh beckett... it's all in the stare to home for the sign from the general... as a team they explode and are patient at the plate... that doesn't happen by accident...a rookie 2nd basemen. bob marley would be proud of mannie... it was impressive... now let's see if this braintrust can figure out how to keep their mvp 3rd baseman and CS... btw--julio? sorry... you really turned me into a believer. super play. you never get there alone and these guys really proved it... Super Stuff!!!!! Ortiz not too bad either, but the real tip of the hat has to go to the manger TF and his right and left hand guys... the hard work and discipline paid off.. they made a very good baseball team look inadequate.

Victorinox-Swiss Army Tools, Watches, Cutlery and Apparel

seeing this for a week....

this picture was taken at point lobos south of carmel, ca on one of those sparkling January days we get.. been working it long enough, but there is sure to be more of it... spring is near..

a view south....on the way to Big Sur

"slightly" manipulated...one of my favorite views..just past rocky point.

a little trip to Pebble Beach

was trying to keep the lens clean...blowin' hard yesterday. No opinions about the weather. Please.

..if you were here from Connecticut and seeing this for the first time...

...this one's not really "finished" but in case you got online, I wanted you to see it. Nice to see you all.

more pictures....monterey and pebble beach

zooming in from Cypress Point to the rocks just north of Ghost Tree.
need a better vehicle to display the photos..Canon Rebel Txi and mostly a 17-40mm ef lens. Lightroom and Photoshop. Not much of a surprise there..Get most of the really good advise from the guys at CameraWest in Monterey...

...I'll be down in the canyons by the coast if you want to try to find me...sometimes we hide in the cliffs by the seaside.

Ahhh the wisdom of the cats.....

xmas eve morning at the treehouse

A couple of animals in the yard.....

Peanut was very small when she was saved and will purr and dance without warning....... and then there is the quest for the perfect woodpecker pic...this one was a little blurry so I painted over it...

My My My....

caught this one just before the rains came...Christmas 2006... hope all is well. We are doing better and better..just like he promised.

Cypress Point looking south to Point Lobos

this one seems to "catch" it....

Wisdom

Ocean of Wisdom

The Beginning of the Journey to Big Sur....

... on the way to Big Sur...

This is what we're looking at...no touch -up. raw.