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Checking your symptoms on WebMD is nice, but it's just the beginning of what can happen when we combine technology and health care. Online Care, a new web-based software from American Well, is helping to improve the way doctor and patient interact. Online Care gives patients the ability to look up symptoms, pick the best doctor, and even attend appointments via web cam.

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The business world of today is more complex and uncertain than ever before. To help alleviate some of that complexity, take a look at our latest video, which illustrates the findings from IBM's 2010 CEO Study. The study surveyed business leaders to find out what factors are most important in leading a company through this uncertainty to profitability. Complexity can be scary, the study found, but dealing with it well can be a great competitive advantage.

For a recent survey, IBM asked 6,000 top CEOs, CIOs, and CFOs about what companies are doing to make their business succeed. Their answers were not about doing "business as usual," but finding creative solutions for a fiercely competitive, rapidly moving marketplace. In a world where technology and global demands seem to change every day, here's a snapshot of what the view is like from the corner office.

A collaboration between GOOD and Oliver Munday.

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Electric cars are coming. But how much do you really know about them? How much money will you save on gas? Where and when can you charge them? What happens if you want to charge your car at a friend's house? GOOD's latest video answers all these questions and more.

The "smart grid" is an electric system that includes information and communications technologies to turn the traditional “one-way” grid into a more dynamic “two-way” system. The point is to improve the way electricity gets distributed and used across the entire power grid, from where power is generated to our homes, and back again. A smart grid lets power companies and consumers see more about how power is being used—in near-real time. With that kind of information, the power company can better match supply to the demand, to increase efficiency, and consumers can make more informed decisions about when and how they use energy. For example someone could run appliances at times when demand is low and pay less on their electric bill. The implementation of the smart grid is generally thought to have the potential to significantly cut energy usage and waste. A recent study looked at exactly how beneficial a smart grid could be if we implemented it by 2030.

A collaboration between GOOD and Oliver Munday, in partnership with IBM.

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From Google to GPS and Twitter to text messages we're creating—and using—astronomical amounts of information these days. And the pace is accelerating. Here's a look at life with data.

In the 21 century, we live a large part of our lives online. Almost everything we do is reduced to bits and sent through cables around the world at light speed. But just how much data are we generating? This is a look at just some of the massive amounts of information that human beings create every day.

Stay tuned tomorrow for a GOOD video, showing how some of this data comes into play in our daily lives.

SOURCES: Cisco; comscore; MapReduce, Radacti Group; Twitter; YouTube

A collaboration between GOOD and Oliver Munday, in collaboration with IBM.

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Imagine being able to travel around your city with public transit information literally at your fingertips. Today this is a reality in Portland, Oregon, thanks to the TriMet transportation system, a new leader in data sharing. By making data on public transit available and accessible to its many tech-savvy riders, TriMet has allowed for the creation of more than 35 phone applications since 2005—all of which are designed to create a more informed user experience. We meet the people behind this creative new approach to transit data sharing, and see how this system makes daily commuting around Portland that much more efficient and enjoyable.