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Browse by Month: 2009
Browse by Month: 2009
11/23/09: The Difficulties of Defining and Discussing Security: A Perspective from the IGF 2009
The 4th annual Internet Governance Forum is ended today in Sharm el Sheikh Egypt. Over 1500 delegates from around the world representing various industry sectors, governments, NGOs, and civil society are gathered to discuss important issues that affect the Internet....
11/16/09: Government and Industry Innovate to Grow U.S. Economy
Today, Newsweek and Intel released the findings from a survey on innovation and the economy. The current economic environment makes for a unique opportunity to find out what’s really important to people. The survey indicates that despite one of...
11/13/09: The Infinite Loop of Finger Pointing: Chemotherapy, Congress, CMS, & the CBO
“Janice” is dreading her 65th birthday next month, and not for the reasons you might imagine. She is actually proud to be turning 65, especially because doctors told her ten years ago that she only had a year to live....
11/12/09: Intel and AMD Announce Settlement of All Antitrust and IP Disputes
Today, Intel and AMD announced that they have settled all legal disputes between the companies, including all antitrust litigation. Intel strongly believes that our business practices are both fair and lawful. We also note that microprocessor prices have declined significantly year after...
11/03/09: Winning the War for Independence: The Independence at Home Act
What will it take to get our nation to prepare for the Age Wave and the chronic disease epidemic that is already here? What do we have to do to make home-based care a fundamental priority for government, healthcare,...
10/30/09: TED MED conclusion: Juxtaposition & Systemic Thinking at the Dinner Party
Okay, TED MED 2009, after a 5-year hiatus for this conference series, is now over….and I, for one, am glad the conference is back. I’m mentally exhausted as I force myself to pound out these thoughts on the flight back...
10/27/09: Questioning the Public and the Options: Balancing Big Government & Big Business
I am sitting on a plane on the way to the TEDMED conference (which I plan to blog about here later in the week), scanning the USA Today, trying not to catch the flu from the woman who is clearly...
Earlier this summer, the House of Representatives passed the American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act, HR 2454, a massive bill addressing energy efficiency, green energy, and climate change, the latter through a cap-and-trade proposal. The Senate currently is considering...
10/26/09: The need for a US – European Union Innovation Dialogue
The leaders of the European Union and the U.S. agreed in April 2007 to establish a Transatlantic Framework for Advancing Transatlantic Integration (the Framework) between the U.S. and the European Union. At the same time they established the Transatlantic Economic...
10/20/09: Intel Whitepaper: Investing in Sustainable Broadband Adoption
Intel just published a brief whitepaper titled "Investing in Sustainable Broadband Adoption": Investing in Sustainable Broadband Adoption_FINAL.pdf The paper discusses the significant broadband adoption gap in America: 96% of U.S. households have a broadband network available to them, but only...
10/16/09: What Healthcare Reform Should Learn From Long Term Care
Anyone working on healthcare reform should spend some time observing how a great long term care provider does their job. Long term care providers already think and act in ways that the rest of the healthcare system needs to adopt...
10/12/09: On Hype and Healthcare Reform: This Too Shall Pass
Ah, here we go again: more lobbing of scary statistics into the healthcare debate and more lobbying of the American people through sensationalizing headlines. We’ve got all the makings of another high political drama in front of us: Republicans Versus...
10/08/09: Women, Boomers, and Growing a Careforce Through Healthcare Reform
I’m beginning to believe that the best way to achieve true and lasting healthcare reform is to just get out of the way and let Baby Boomer women revolutionize healthcare. Baby Boomers as a cohort have been change agents for...
10/06/09: Perspectives on Healthcare Reform from A Mountain Top
Sometimes (okay, most of the time) mountains help me see things from a different perspective. I just got back from a week in the beautiful Wallowa mountains in eastern Oregon—an awe inspiring place if there ever was one. The small...
10/05/09: Supporting the Korea - U.S. Free Trade Agreement
Intel recently filed comments, Intel Corporation Korea - US FTA Comments USTR-2009-0020.pdf, with the Office of the United States Trade Representative, pursuant to their request for public comments, on the Free Trade Agreement with the Republic of Korea (KORUS FTA). In...
09/16/09: Nation’s Chief Technology Officer: Telemedicine Key to Healthcare Reform
I get a lot of electronic newsletters and emails that go right into the virtual trash, but today's Communications Daily (Volume 29, Number 178) had a headline that made me literally jump for joy: "TELEMEDICINE KEY to meeting president's goals...
09/15/09: A Moratorium on Waiting Rooms, Parking Lots, and Hospitals?
I’ve had lightning strike me twice. Okay, metaphorically speaking. The first time was about 15 years ago in Utah when I was invited to be the “patient representative” on a hospital committee who had won a huge grant from...
09/12/09: Brussels calling: tackling societal problems with technology
In the midst of the vacation season, the European Commission launched a public consultation on the future Information and Communication Technology (ICT) policy for the European Union. The intent is to gather broad input, so the next Information Society Commissioner...
09/11/09: September 11th Perspectives on Fear and Healthcare Reform
My fingers are disintegrating as I type, as if the words leaving me are taking me with them. Oh. It's just dry skin. My hands are raw, dry, almost bloody. With the threat of H1N1 all around (there are signs...
09/09/09: A Most Inspirational Speech…From My Cab Driver
I just left a meeting at the Capitol with Alice from our D.C. office after a long day of meetings, speeches, and interviews. It was incredibly gracious of the House staffer to meet with us at the late hour, especially...
09/09/09: IN THE CONGRESSIONAL ON-DECK CIRCLE: CLIMATE CHANGE LEGISLATION
The ongoing health care debate has delayed the anticipated consideration of climate change cap-and-trade legislation in the Senate. To re-set for those of you who haven’t paid attention in awhile, the House of Representatives passed the American Clean Energy and...
09/08/09: Things I’d Love To Hear From the President’s Healthcare Speech
I just got back from a brisk walk (after yesterday’s blog, I at least tried to exhibit some Personal Social Responsibility by getting some exercise!) by the Capitol, the White House, and the National Mall all lit up at night....
09/07/09: Ending the Era of Entitlement Part 1: Patients
This Labor Day, I am on a plane headed back to Washington, D.C., either a glutton for punishment or an eternal optimist about healthcare reform. It’s another week of 40 or 50 meetings on Capitol Hill to try to be...
09/03/09: Healthcare Reform Should Launch Our Next Global “Space Race”
I wasn't even born until 11 years afterwards, but I grew up fully aware of the launch of Sputnik I in 1957, the dog "Laika" sent up by the USSR the next year, and the whole "space race" between...
08/27/09: A Serious, Perhaps Dangerous Case of Reform Fatigue
I have avoided writing here about my new healthcare problem because I thought it would be too self-serving, but I don’t feel I can hold this in any longer. I am just really, really tired, overwhelmed, a little scared, sometimes...
08/26/09: Galapagos Syndrome, Japan and Sunday's National Election
Japan is days away from major elections and polls suggest an historic result: the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) replacing the standard bearing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Nobody quite knows what this means for the technology industry; DPJ candidate views...
08/25/09: Doctors (and Nurses) Without Borders: Rethinking Licensure
Sometimes emergencies teach us things about how the world should be even in normal times. On August 28th, 2005, a dear friend called me in a panic. He had been rushed to Mississippi as part of an advance team to...
08/21/09: The “Macro Story” In Your Ear
For several years now, I have been yammering on about the ‘macro story’ – the role that Information and Communications Technology (ICT) plays in driving energy efficiency throughout the economy and society. And because greater energy efficiency typically is the...
08/20/09: U.S. Stimulus: Intel Invests in Sustainable Broadband Adoption
The application window for first round broadband stimulus funding closes today for NTIA’s Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP). Last week, Intel joined the national non-profit Connected Nation and a host of fellow technology companies, including Dell, Fujitsu, Lenovo, Velocity Micro,...
08/18/09: Healthcare Reform Is Personal For Me
I recently had the chief of staff of a Member of Congress from my own state deny my request to meet with him: “We can’t meet with you because you’re a vendor; you’ve got too many special interests.” Wow, to...
08/14/09: Quick Thoughts on Random Things from a Tired Brain
I’ve started about 15 pages of blog comments this week, but can’t seem to finish any of them—or even a thought. So here are a few blurbs and links. Have a great weekend! Read the Bills For Yourself Many folks...
08/14/09: Mr. President, Time to Put Forth Your Vision (Video)
Dear President Obama: As fear mongering and health reform distortions have stolen the headlines this week, it is clear that very few of us understand what healthcare reform will look and feel like when it is done. In the absence...
08/12/09: Debates Lead to Provocative Thoughts on Healthcare
I tried really hard not to write this blog entry, to swallow my outrage and stifle my word processor. I chose something pleasant and calming the past few days…picking plums and blackberries on our farm…to try to talk myself...
08/07/09: Myths and Misconceptions about EHRs
I am not an expert on Electronic Health Records (EHRs), and I never want to be. Nor do I want most people to be experts on EHRs. For that matter, the vast majority of doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers...
08/04/09: The Fraud and Abuse of “Fraud and Abuse”
As a patient advocate and frequent flyer, I spend a lot of time in “waiting areas.” Whether it is the waiting room of a hospital (I really can’t read the same finger-worn issue of Good Housekeeping April 1997 one more...
07/31/09: Continuous Innovation is Key in Healthcare Reform
What if Medicare became the fast-moving pioneer of implementing new practices, care models, technologies, and business models for healthcare? What would the world be like if health plans and providers were encouraged to be continuously innovative in coming up with...
07/29/09: Healthcare Reform Feels Different, Even Likely, This Time
Since coming back from D.C. Monday night, I’ve been almost paralyzed to do this blog, not with “writer’s block” but with “writer’s flood.” There are so many issues, ideas, concerns, and hopes swirling around in my head that I can’t...
07/26/09: Investing in Sustainable Aging: Driving Towards Personal Healthcare Reform
07/23/09: Obama Press Conference Reaction: Success = Results - Expectations
It’s Wednesday July 22nd late in the evening as I write this, and I just got back from a brisk walk by the White House (two nights in a row with exercise…pathetically, a record for me in 2009!) where I...
07/22/09: Scoring Points and Buying Time
I’m just back in my hotel room after a long day on the Hill, with more thoughts and impressions than I have the energy to cover. So I’ll focus on two: the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) scoring of the House...
07/20/09: Will Obama Lead a Culture Change for Healthcare Reform?
On my flight to D.C. today, I had the pleasure of sitting next to Mark Ganz, President and CEO of Regence, and we struck up a great conversation about what will be required of real reform. We both agreed: it...
07/20/09: DESC Signs MOU with Japan's Green IT Promotion Council
The Japanese have long been in the forefront of governments which recognize the role of ICT in driving energy efficiency improvements throughout society. The Green IT Promotion Council (GIPC), a joint effort of the Japanese government and the ICT industry,...
07/17/09: Searching for Health Reform In All The Wrong Places
July 17, 2009 Over the past few weeks, I have had a serious case of "news junkyitis" for everything I could find out about healthcare reform as Congress and the Obama administration debate what to do for our country's healthcare...
07/06/09: Making the Case for Prevention: Tales from the Field
Making the Case for Prevention: Tales from the Field The Alliance for Health Reform and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation sponsored a June 19 briefing to discuss a range of prevention measures such as chronic disease management, alcohol and smoking...
07/04/09: Waxman-Markey Bill is About Climate AND Energy
As everyone not incarcerated, and some that are, knows, the US House of Representatives last week passed the “American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009,” know as ACES. It passed by the thinnest margin possible – one vote –...
06/23/09: Stop the Tax on Innovation
Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini and United States Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) coauthored an Op-Ed, which appeared in the San Jose Mercury News, on the subject of ending diversion of Patent and Trademark Office user fees from the PTO...
06/22/09: President Obama plans immigration summit
On Thursday June 25 President Obama is expected to host his first stakeholder meeting on immigration at the White House. We understand that only Members Congress have been invited to attend and that the President hopes to have a discussion...
06/08/09: Market-Oriented Spectrum Policy Evolution in the United States
Intel has long advocated that governments adopt spectrum polices that are technology neutral and service flexible. Dave Horne of Intel’s Communications Policy Team recently produced a white paper titled Market-Oriented Spectrum Policy Evolution in the United States.pdf, which covers U.S....
05/21/09: Dossia Testimony before HHS Advisory Committee
Yesterday, I attended a hearing of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics’s (NCVHS) Subcommittee on Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security. NCVHS is a major advisory committee to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and...
05/20/09: New study shows that chip-enabled technologies can substantially reduce electricity consumption
A new study released last week by the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) shows that chip-enabled technologies have revolutionized the relationship between economic production and energy consumption. The study was commissioned by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA)....
05/19/09: Nurturing an Accountable Privacy Profession
I. The Privacy Professional – The past two decades have seen a tremendous rate of innovation in the way that data is managed and processed. Some of this data, pertains to individuals, and how it is processed can have positive...
05/14/09: House Patent Hearing
Simon testimony final.docOn April 30, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on HR 1260, the Patent Reform Act of 2009. HR 1260 is essentially identical to HR 1908 from the 110th Congress. David Simon, Chief Patent Counsel for Intel...
05/13/09: Health IT Privacy
Today I participated in a workshop held by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), a nonprofit, public interest advocacy organization devoted to technology policy issues. CDT runs a well-respected Health Privacy Project that is attempting to develop workable privacy...
05/13/09: Intel Statements on the European Commission Decision
I want to share with you the views of our CEO and General Counsel on the European Commisson's decision today. ---------------- EC Ruling: Statement by Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 13, 2009 – Paul Otellini,...
05/11/09: The Broadband Stimulus Challenge
The US government will be awarding roughly $7 billion of grants designed to promote broadband use by unserved and underserved Americans. They are expected to announce the rules for this process by the end of June. Thousands of applications are...
05/11/09: Sean Maloney Keynote at WCAI in Washington, DC
Sean Maloney, executive vice president and chief sales and marketing officer at Intel, gave the keynote address at the WCAI's Wireless Policy Summit in Washington, DC on May 5. He highlighted the primary role that mobile wireless broadband platforms such...
05/04/09: A Great Day in New York
April 22, 2009 was a great day for education in New York as Intel Corporation honored the New York winners and finalists participating in Intel sponsored education competitions. The competitions highlighted included the Intel Science Talent Search (STS), the...
04/29/09: According to the EPA, Intel is the largest single purchaser of green power in the US
Yesterday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its list of top green energy purchasers here in the US. Intel topped that list for the second year in a row! Our purchase of renewable energy certificates (RECs) amounts to 1.3 billion...
04/24/09: What Does a Lost or Stolen Laptop Cost?
A recent independent study done by the Ponemon Institute and commissioned by Intel, found that lost or stolen laptops cost their corporate owners an average of $49,246. The Ponemon Institute analyzed 138 instances of lost or stolen laptops to better...
04/23/09: Building Trust In Technology - Part 3
Text of speech at FTC March 16, 2009 – Part 3 (Don Whiteside and Scott Uthe contributed substantially to these remarks) Privacy Tools Abound There is no shortage of tools available to users focused on protecting their privacy. The majority...
04/22/09: TheTrans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership
Trade agreements have been a major contributor to improving U.S. competitiveness and economic growth in our global economy and also are important to promoting economic recovery for U.S. workers and businesses. Trade agreements open up our countries’ markets to our...
04/21/09: Moving from Inter-not to Internet …
Intel recently submitted Comments to the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS) regarding the $7.2B in broadband stimulus funding to be awarded over the next couple years. With...
04/21/09: A Great Day in DC
I had the pleasure of escorting three of the Intel Science Talent Search finalists to Capitol Hill last month. It was an honor to get to know these magnificent students, and to learn about their amazing projects. Elizabeth Coquillette (Cleveland...
04/20/09: Building Trust In Technology - Part II
Text of speech at FTC March 16, 2009 – Part 2 (Don Whiteside and Scott Uthe contributed substantially to these remarks) Triangle of Trust No single entity can achieve the goal of building trust; it is clearly a Shared Responsibility....
04/17/09: Patent Reform Update
Two weeks ago, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved and reported out of committee S. 515, the Patent Reform Act of 2009. Similar, earlier versions of this bill had been under consideration by both Houses of Congress for the past three...
04/16/09: Trade and U.S. Competitiveness are Joined at the Hip
Did you know much of Intel's R&D and capital investment occurs in the U.S., but close to 80% of our revenue is generated overseas? Everyone agrees that the U.S. needs to become more competitive. Other nations are catching up and some...
President Barack Obama meeting the Intel Science Competition Students at the White House Monday, March 9, 2009. White House photo by Chuck Kennedy March 9, 2009 – President Obama greeted the high school students being honored for their original research...
Last month Intel signed on to a statement with non-government organizations, public agencies and other companies to support a nationwide Energy Efficiency Resource Standard (EERS). The Digital Energy Solutions Campaign (DESC), a coalition that Intel co-chairs along with Dell, also...
04/15/09: Building Trust In Technology - Part I
For my first few blog postings on Security and Privacy policy, I would like to publish a speech I gave at a US Federal Trade Commission event on privacy and security. I am interested to hear feedback on the proposals...
04/10/09: Information Technology Holds the Key to Addressing the “3 Es”
Americans are bombarded these days with press accounts of our economic ‘meltdown’ and the challenge of climate change. And, while gas prices have returned to more reasonable levels, the memory of $4 gas probably is still fresh enough to make...
04/09/09: Painting the Blogosphere Intel Blue
Let me also extend a warm, personal welcome to the new Intel Public Policy blog! We launched this week and look forward to opining on many things, large and small, that involve tech legislation, regulation, and government policies around the...
04/07/09: Welcome to the Intel Policy Blog
I'd like to welcome you to Intel's new Policy Blog space. This is a new cyber forum and I'm pleased to be the guest blogger for today to cut the virtual ribbon. My name is Bruce Sewell and I...
04/07/09: Market-based Radio Spectrum Reforms
Southeast Asian countries, such as Thailand and Vietnam, are considering whether to make spectrum available for wireless broadband services this year. In recent meetings with Thai, Vietnamese, and the Asia-Pacific Telecom Wireless Forum, I had a chance to make Intel's case...
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