Making your home smart the easy way

You buy a really cool device that automatically opens and closes your window curtains.   You bring it home and install it in your room. You plug it in and then tap it with your smart phone to establish the fact that you own it and it belongs in your smart home. The...

Taking a small step towards patient-centered care

Patient centered care is becoming a watchword for modern healthcare. However, getting all of the information required to provide truly patient-centered care into the right hands is a big undertaking. This post describes a small step towards that goal by starting with...

Turning college life into a lifetime

In this example, your personal cloud establishes different relationships with other clouds as your life circumstances change. Let’s look at the college setting. As your relationship with a university changes, so do the kinds of information that are exchanged between...

Trust – a Tale of Two Worlds – part 3.

Trust frameworks. Enter the trust framework – the digital version of a social contract. The trust framework is an online document that publishes the tools and rules together with an assessment and enforcement infrastructure that operationalizes them. In most cases the...