Internet Can Help the People in Need of Care

I would like to do this Ablery project as part of your Organization


The Ablery Project
www.myproviderspace.com
by Janine M Lodato
LodatoClan@aol.com
Recently in a Fortune article Dr. Andy Grove made some very important and eloquent statement re the healthcare cost in the USA especially of the cost of care for the people who are in need of home based care: the frail elderly, the chronically ill and the disabled.

About a 100 million in the USA alone.

Medical spending in the USA is at 16% of the GDP and it is the fastest growing segment.

The average American spends 440,000 dollars in his/her lifetime on healthcare. 280,000 of which will be spent after age 65 and approximately 50% of this will be spent on assited-living facilities and nursing homes.

So it stands to reason that if there were a way to keep the people in need of care in there own homes longer we would have a better and lower cost system: we could save $ 300 billion per year.

We can do this if we enabled the caregivers to do tele-work from the homes of the people in need of care.

This can be done by installing an Ablery Portal based system in each community in support of the care recipients and their caregivers.

The Ablery Portal is a voice recognition capable Internet server and it is connected to a simple laptop in each of the homes of the care recipients.
We like to call this simple voice controllable lap top the VoxTop. See details below.

The Ablery Portal and associated VoxTops for a community of 100 care recipients would have an initial cost of $ 35,000.

The annual support cost for including support people would be $ 15,000.

In order to maintain the health of one's mind one needs to perform two types of mental activities: cognition and collaboration, both could be achieved via the Ablery system..
Cognition is to gather information from the Web and understand it deeply. One of the best tools to do this is the Internet using search techniques especially voice controllable searches.
Collaboration is the interaction with others via the Web such as email, instant messaging and, most importantly, virtual group interactions with people with common interests. What the Internet people call Web 2.0 or social Web. A fine example is www.MySpace.com or other similar ones.
To collaborate and search one must need a good strong interface to the Web and Windows by Microsoft just simply will not do since it is maddeningly complex, insanely unreliable and criminally expensive.
What we need is a simple, reliable, low cost interface to the Web, I call it VoxTop, to replace the complex personal computers currently offered. A VoxTop is a simple video telephone, or some other thin client like the Nokia 800, or even better the XO system of Nicholas Negroponte: www.laptop.org. VoxTop is then connected to the Web via a shared server offering the applications: search capability, e-mail and instant messaging. All operated by the users based on a simple voice dialog which can be gesture enhanced. We have developed a gesture system called Signalish.
But we must attend to the caregivers as well and allow them to earn a living telework style using a community wide Wi-Fi system or WiMax broadband system.
The shared server, which we call the Ablery Portal, should be operated by the community government since it will lower the cost of medicine and improve the quality of life for everybody. Or it could be offered intially at very low cost by a server farm such as Wikia, or Facebook. This Ablery Portal which runs the integrated applications is described in www.MyProviderSpace.com , including the voice dialog based Web interaction software and associated applications acquired from open source via www.canonical.com. Most of the applications and the operating system for the Ablery Portal are Linux or Ubuntu (linux variation) based.
Even tele-medicine and tele-health software is available from the www.va.gov.
A courageous organization like www.AARP.org or an HMO like www.kp.org or similar strong organization, or an alliance between them should finance in each community the Ablery system and the associated VoxTop laptops for the 100 million homebound people and their 44 million caregivers..
Janine M. LodatoP.O.Box 838SAN ANDREAS, CA.95249-838~__( o )