Friday, August 26, 2022

< + > The Cloud, Eye Exams, and Bad Ad Placement – Fun Friday

Happy Friday!  Congrats on making it to the end of the week.  You know what that means.  It’s time for another edition of Fun Friday where we delight and entertain you (or at least try) to send you off into the weekend with a smile on your face.

First up is a look at some cloud humor.

Yes, it’s true that it’s just someone else’s computer. However, someone else’s computer is often much better, more secure, faster, and pre-built with the right software by people who often know more about configuring it at scale and it can do so much more than your in house server. Although, fundamentally the cloud isn’t some mythical object. It really is just another computer.

I’d say health literacy is a problem. Reminds me of the great movie, Pearl Harbor, where he has reading issues and memorizes the eye chart to try and pass the eye exam. The nurse notices it and asks him to do it again, but backwards. All of this highlights the complexity of healthcare and health literacy. Something we haven’t done a great job addressing, but hopefully technology can help us address it.

Ok. This is really a HITMC healthcare marketing joke, but the irony is too funny. This is what happens with what they call programmatic advertising. You can make exceptions to it to avoid these issues, but it’s hard to do at the scale I’m sure United Healthcare is doing. It’s kind of nice to have United Healthcare supporting Dr. Glaucomflecken.

Have a great weekend!



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