VisualShare - communicate with pictures - software solutions for image sharing and collaboration. VisualShare builds applications for organizations that need to share images, conduct reviews and document results.

VisualShare recently presented at the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) annual meeting in Seattle, WA the worlds largest scientific meeting and exposition focused exclusively on telemedicine.

In a previous blog I have stated how great the iPhone is. It is so great that we use it for sales presentations while on the road. The Flashy-ness of the phone really lends itself to presentations. Of course, Hollywood has placed Apple products for years based upon the same reasoning.

After committing myself to not being an early technology adopter I have gone and done it. That is, I bought an iPhone. I have owned many smartphones and PDA's which now rattle around in my desk drawer. I cannot throw them away because of how much money I spent on them only to find them completely worthless 9-12 months later.

On Dec 29, 2007 the Wall Street Journal published an article called "VC's New Math: Does Less = More?". The article showcases the approach of Peter Thiel's Founders Fund and their recent success with Facebook. Their approach seems to make some sense. In a nutshell, the article makes the argument for smaller amounts of venture investments (less than $1 M) as opposed to apparent $2M rule of thumb.

Guy Kawasaki made an interesting point at an innovation presentation I attended yesterday. He recognized that when building a business based on a new innovation it is vital to stay focused.

Innovators have many ideas for new products or services that could fit into many different markets and as a result, I believe, are not focused. However, to be successful one has to focus. Investors want to see a focused plan, employees need a clear target and customers need a clear message.

Yesterday I went to a presentation by Guy Kawasaki (the famous Apple Evangelist) on innovation. What a great presentation--more on that in another blog. On his last slide he promoted his new website called Truemors which he called "NPR for the eyes". At first I thought, "I do not have time for another website". But, I went anyway (his self-promotion worked!). It is a cool site where you can find interesting non-headline stories. I went straight for

Mike Gotta in his blog Collaborative Thinking brought up an interesting topic on "Presence" in his blog Social Presence: We Need To Push The Reset Button. Most people know presence by way of instant messaging. They log-in to their instant messenger or chat application and their "presence" appears to all other users in their "buddy list". For the most part this is where it ends. However, it need not end there.

I have just confirmed that VisualShare will have a booth at the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN) 15th annual conference October 17-20 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

I recently read an Op-Ed article in the Wall Street Journal by Bill Gates. In the same issue there was an article about how Microsoft is creating a Web portal called HealthVault.com to store people's medical information.

The Op-Ed article was right-on (IMHO) in its conclusion that primary care and prevention are the keys to reducing medical care costs and improving health care outcomes. Note that healthcare costs are the highest in the US when compared to all industrialized nations while healthcare outcomes are far from the highest--meaning that the US pays much more money for lower quality healthcare.

I question, however, whether or not HealthVault is what we need. I certainly agree that a person's patient information is their property, however, it is not clear to me that HealthVault anything beyond a storage mechanism for healthcare data. The marketing hype for HealthVault talks about sharing patient data with a variety of medical providers by having the medical provider interact with HealthVault.

I am always amazed at the usefulness of Wikipedia and I am certain that I do not scratch the surface.

Laboratory use of VisualStrata imaging collaboration system leverages the value of FISH (or Fluorescent in situ hybridization) images (sample image).

VisualStrata not only provides a persistant storage of the images--necessary because the fluorescent markers decay over time--but a catalog of the present and ongoing knowledge-base of the images.

I just read a great article by Ron Roszkiewicz titled GDSS: The Future of Online Meetings and True Digital Collaboration? In my opinion, this article was successful in communicating, in simple terms, how conferencing (and conferencing systems) differ from collaboration.

Technology is a moving target.

The target moves for a variety of reasons most of which are good: advancements, improvements, increased efficiency, and so on. While it is a challenge to keep up, adopting change that yields an increase in value is usually worth the pain to change.

I decided to put this entry under "Technology" because I was consumed with my blogging (technology) while this even occurred.

The event is a complete destruction of my son's room by my daughter. When I was finally drawn to the disaster from my focus on technology I found a pile of diapers, clothes, wipey blocks, etc. Their faces told me that they were proud of their creation.

Windows Vista is many years delayed. It has arrived. I have not used it. I hear it does very neat things. Many of which I have concluded have existed on the new Mac OSX for as many years as Vista has been delayed. Hmmm.

As you mentioned Trish engaging other companies in possible "pie expanding" (mutually beneficial) collaborations and partnerships often results in repeated trips around the the merry-go-round with little to show for it. The collaboration meeting with Clarity Medical was indeed an exception.

Hey Chris how many times have you dreaded a pending teleconference? Or for that matter, how many times have you listened to me complain about a pending teleconference? The hesitation could be for a variety of reasons such as not knowing how to get a conversation started with the participants, facing the same old explanation of your business offering and technology (software in our case) while trying to make it sound good…ughhhh. Here at VisualShare we have discovered that every once in awhile, just when you think you cannot do this teleconference thing again, you hit the mark.