TY for RT @ArmediaLLC! 3 in 4 Patients Want E-mail Consultations with Doctors http://t.co/l8gZaxQycy … #healthIT #hitsm via @Perficient_HC

— Perficient Health IT (@Perficient_HC) November 4, 2013

The demand is there.

I wonder how many other cemeteries can command this kind of attention from Google.

Fridges at Starbucks will soon tell employees when a carton of milk has gone bad: http://t.co/pcmPX92fNO

— Fast Company (@FastCompany) October 23, 2013

While I was in Richmond, President Obama must have likened the rollout of the new health care website to iOS7. This created a stir among users in the tech community.

3/3 I don't want a President who only cares about the web when it helps him get elected, but not when it's designed to help the citizens.

— Clay Shirky (@cshirky) October 22, 2013

Sign the petition to open source all the code for http://t.co/hlZQ7Y0EBZ: http://t.co/FV1qDIXMin

— Anil Dash (@anildash) October 21, 2013

@CShirky made a number of comments that got my attention. For another take, see NPR's How Politics Set the Stage for the Obamacare Meltdown.

Hot on the heels of Mashable's report of a robotic petting zoo comes Fast Company on a huggable robotic monkey that can be used to diagnose dementia.