kirabug’s idea files

Think you’re coming down with the flu? If you’re like a growing trend, you’re googling “flu symptoms” and similar terms before you’re calling the doctor. The result: Google can tell where the flu is spreading based on what regions are doing the searching.

Just thinking about it gives me a sore throat

This is pretty damn cool. I wanna try it.

Your next prescription could be on a computer somewhere, instead of on a scrawled and wrinkled sheet of paper.

I’ve been waiting a long time for this. A certain drugstore screwed up three different prescriptions on us in two weeks last summer, one of which could have been very dangerous. At least one of those was due to the fact that the pharmacy misread the prescription.

Not all of our doctors have computers, but if even one or two of them link into this, there will be less fighting with Caremark, less fighting to get scrips refilled… all in all, a very nice process.