Empowering families to take charge of their health, Clarity Health Journal helps individuals dealing with chronic conditions manage their health information online.

Humans are by nature social creatures. We live in groups; families, towns or citys we all belong to some tribe. When it comes to social media, What tribe do you belong to?

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What about loyality? are you a member of a website because of friends, value to society or just to be loyal to those who invited you?

What Boys like and what Girls like on cell phones also impacts different ad revenue for mobile apps.

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Saverio Rinaldi
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www.clarityhealthcare.net
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Send from my Blackberry

Delegates at eHealth 2011 have the opportunity to take a tour of the showcase and see how the pan-Canadian standards can be applied to improve health outrcomes.

This year Clarity Health Journal was introduced as part of the chronic disease scenario. Using SecureKey as a two-factor authentication and a glucometer upload for home monitoring and EMR document exchange, the scenario shows that consumers using home monitoring devices can share their health information securely with their health care teams.

Our participation at eHealth also introduced our partnerhip with iCaretech to provide vitual home visits. Our booth demonstration focused on consumer health application using Clarity Health Journal and the integration of home monitoring devices and remote image access.

Will digital medical records save your life?

Now imagine you have an a consumer health application, a simple health card is in your wallet. It contains your emergency contact, blood type, allergies, health insurance and a web site to access your full health information. You could also have an  Emergency report with you that you printed before going on your trip. All this information could save your life.

All your family health info

The majority of us leave our health information in the hand of professionals, our doctor, the clinic or hospital. Most times this is enough; our family doctor can fax or send details to a specialists, the hospital or clinic will sent lab results or clinic notes to our family doctor. All your health information is safe and secure in the hands of the medical professionals you deal with regularly. But when an unexpected event occurs, this safe and secure health information is not available to the paramedics or doctors tiring to save your life.

Your health information at your finger tips

Maintaining your personal health information gives you and your family control. Keeping a family health record will give you a secure, safe and comprehensive set of health information that can be used to keep you healthy.  And when you need it it could provide a voice that is missing during an emergency situation.

Making money is a part of working. You get paid by a company because you add value and supposedly profit to the bottom line. Having started my academic career in math I quickly learned to read an annual report and a balance sheet.  Rather simple really.  After all, accountants basically use arithmetic to create two columns of numbers; debit and credit and ensure that the two columns add up. Balanced books means that columns are equal.  A positive number means profit, a negative number means a loss. Since my first employer was publicly traded and listed on the TSE it was easy enough for me to figure out that each employee of the company brought in $250k to $350 k a year in revenue.  You make money because the company makes money.

So figuring out my salary and hourly rate was basic math. Knowing how much my employer charged for my time to clients again made it very easy for me to realize that even at my salary I was under paid. Quickly, it was evident that I could make more by being independent – all I needed was clients who would pay me what my employer was charging for my time. This is easier said than done.

Ok, enough gloating, how do you make a Million dollars a year? If you are Bill Clinton or another famous person you can get someone to pay you a million dollars for a speaking engagement. Many folks that can pack a theater or an auditorium full of people to come and hear them speak, sing or perform can command fees of huge sums. Even if not 1 million for one show, they may be able to do 25 engagements  at $40,000 which will earn a million a year.

If you use an hourly rate, what would you need to charge to make a million dollars a year? Well there are 8,766 hours in a year, so your hourly rate would be $ 114 per hour.  While you can work 7 days a week, not many people will pay you $114 per hour to sleep. For consultants and lawyers the average billable hours in a year are 2080 hours, using this you can earn 1 million by charging $480 per hour. That’s  really not unusual for high prized lawyers and other professionals. Of course the reason they make so much an hour is that there are many hours that they legitimately can’t bill, but it ‘s still not unheard of to bill $500 or more per hour and bring in one million.

You still have expenses; office space, admin assistant, car, travel, marketing and entertainment.  For such hourly rates your work had better be worth it.

We talked about getting one person to pay you a million dollars, what about the reverse? Get a million people to pay you $1 dollar each. But what do they get for a dollar? Are you just begging for it, or do you have something to sell for a $ 1? And if you had something to sell how did you get it, what did it cost you to make or buy for resell?

Let’s take this premise further, we could get 20 cents from 50 thousand people and make a cool million. There are over 6 billion people in the world so conceivably you can make a million dollars a year by getting .01 cents from 100 million people. There is a reverse relationship at play the more people you can  get to pay you the less you need from each person.

So there you have it. The math is relatively simple you can sell your time, work hours for an exorbitant rate or you can sell to many people something at minuscule price.  Selling time is finite, in that there are only so many hours in a year that you can work and the rate has to be high to achieve your goal. Selling time can also be expensive as you need to do a lot of marketing to justify your worth. Going the alternative method you can find something to sell arrive at a price many people are willing to pay you for it and then sell away. What the product is, how much it will take to make or buy will factor into what you can sell it for.  The math is the simple part, making a million dollars a year that takes a lot more than arithmetic.

This revelation occurred just this past Sunday. For the past eight years my wife has picked up the sport of golf.  Her and three  long time friends took lessons and began to play each Sunday morning. For the past four years I been the spare if one of the foursome couldn’t make it. I didn’t keep score since I was just a filler. The past two years, as people moved and changed careers, I became a regular on the tour. This Sunday morning as I stared down the long par 5 I actually felt that this 465 yard was manageable. The distance hasn’t changed since we started playing the course but on this day I visualized my 230 yard drive, my 160 yard fairway shot then my chip and putt, and I said I could do this; well it was 2 chip shots and 2 putts; it was a boogie not a birdie. Keeping track made all the difference.

Today we played another round of golf with my 80 year old neighbor, he’s been retired for 27 years. It’s been a couple of years since he last golfed, before then he would play 2 or 3 times a week for over 20 plus years and it showed. Even at his advanced years he was able to drive further and straighter than the rest of us. But the most important thing I learned from him was that “it ain’t golf, laddie if you’re not keeping score”.

Travel around the sun

Holidays spent driving around or even flying to distant lands open our minds. We experience new sights, meet new people,  see how others on our small planet live. These are short trips with great returns. Enjoy your sojourn on the planet as we travel around the sun.

As we rotate it appears the the sun is moving away

When you travel often you run into people you know.  Or the people you meet have a lot in common with you.  The common phase is “it’s a small world”.  This is true, it seems even smaller when you consider that of the billions of people on the planet the vast majority are born, live and die within walking distance of their home. Only a small minority of us travel great distances and can experience the voyage.

Journey begins

Our spaceship earth has very limiting confines. Yet we can walk the earth, swim the ocean and fly the sky and still not see and experience all that it has to offer.

Largest Fish in the Ocean