I’m not a healthcare expert.  I don’t have any training in the field, and I don’t work in the field.  I suppose some people could call me a hacker.  I’m a hacker in the sense that I build software systems for a living, and some of them might be worth mentioning.

(Just to clarify, hackers make cool things, they don’t break into computers.  Those are crackers)

So, I have no expertise to share with this blog.  Instead, I’m using it to learn.  The state of healthcare in this country hits pretty close to home, and coming from the software field, I think its strange that there are so few hackers tackling this problem.  

What I’m looking for are the grassroots innovators that are building cool things in their garages with off the shelf parts.  Obviously, no one is going to be building anything like a CT scanner in their garage, but that’s actually the fun part.  There’s no way to know what’s cool and important (disruptive in MBA speak) until it sneaks into people’s hands and we all exclaim how obvious it was.