Get ready on July 11, 2008 to keystroke into the “cloud” with your new G3 iPhone. Not a big deal? Well, for a paltry $200, you can purchase a cloud catcher from Apple and soar into the mobile me cloud using your smart phone with enterprise developed clinical and business applications directly to your cell phone.

Cloud computing is big now and has been for the last few years but like everything progressive and anti-TTWWADI pronounced twa-dee ( That’s The Way We Always Did It), we healthcare providers will be lucky to get our EMR / EHR / PHR come 2020; H-m-m-m-m-m 2020, sounds like a pun, you know hindsight.

I doubt people really care very much about this anyway, but I don’t think that someone calling Judy a name had anything to do with the WMC story. It does tie closely to one event though. Last month the WMC’s golden girl Annette Ziegler was almost unanimously reprimanded for ethics violations by the WI Supreme Court. About a week after that is when the Cullen resignation happened. People around here have been very sour about what’s going on with WMC. I’m guessing Epic made it’s decision following that and the WMC ran to the press crying about how Epic was trying to ruin them.

The WMC is to the WI political process is what the swift boat ads were to the Kerry election campaign. Looking back they were trash, but they tricked enough people at the time. This frankly shouldn’t even be a story and around here it’s not one unless you’re part of the conservative right.