Seeing Your Laptop Case Just Like An Insurance Policy

Have you ever considered the fact that a laptop case is like an insurance policy? It may even be worth more than an insurance policy. How so, you ask? This is so because an insurance policy only takes effect in the event of an incident(most likely bad). An insurance cover does not by any means protect you from bad or unpleasant events, all it does to help you get back on your feet after the bad incidence. Whereas the laptop case prevents that unpleasant event of your laptop getting damaged from occurring. Most people who take out the regular insurance would prefer not to have any ugly incidence than to be able to recover and get back on their feet after the incident. I'd rather not have any unpleasant occurrence than to have a recovery route from it, I'm certain you do too.

An insurance policies that covers all your mobile property , that is including your laptop, is a very good idea. Do not let it end at that, also get a good laptop bag or case that would help ensure the safety of your laptop for a good while.

Do you know how difficult it is to get back your data if your laptop gets damaged? A lot of people believe that because they have backup, they would conveniently recover their data id their laptop is damaged, this is so wrong. There is no way, you would get back all your information because what we do is to backup things we deem to be very vital and do not really continue to update the backup daily. It is really disheartening to discover that some of those things that we deemed important would later turn out to be less important than the ones we thought were not important. The absolute fact is that you can not recover every data from your laptop no matter the level of the insurance.

It wouldn't do to just carry your laptop in any bag, it is necessary that you get a good laptop bag or case that were made solely for the protection of your laptop. It might seem like common knowledge that one should carry one's laptop with a good laptop bag or case. It is not actually so. If you really do not know why you need to have a good laptop bag or case for your laptop, consider these;

Your laptop case or bag gives you the ease of carrying your laptop, laptop accessories and other things that you need to carry

A good laptop case or bag ensures the safety of your laptop from every kind of weather.

A good laptops also protects your laptop from hard impacts or knocks that could damage it.

A god laptop bag or case is a very essential protection for your laptop, so try to get one immediately.

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Brailer's New Quest

IN VIVO Blog had the opportunity to talk with David Brailer in a previous professional life. He’s thoughtful, intelligent, and proved to be a very good pick to be the federal government’s first health care IT czar. He gave a face to the important need for IT and health care integration, and it’s a concept that has since stuck with the American public.

In that conversation, which came after he’d already announced his decision to resign his post and go back to California, Brailer more than hinted that private equity or venture capital might be in his future. Smart money had him joining an established firm, probably some big name technology investor with a fair amount of dough already being invested in multiple industries. Brailer, in this scenario, would head up a foray into health care-IT investing, and he’d be a great pick to do so.

What was not envisioned, however, is what actually happened. The California Public Employees' Retirement System--eager to find new technologies to save money on its $4.9 billion in annual health care costs--gave Brailer $700 million from Calpers to invest in health care-IT and health care services companies.

Acccording to reports like this one in Modern Healthcare, Brailer's new firm, Health Evolution Partners, will invest $500 million of that money directly into companies. The rest will go into a $200 million fund of funds that will be committed to other venture firms that invest in the space.

Okay. Does this concern anyone?

No knock against Brailer. He isn't an experienced investor, but he's got street cred, clout and spent the past 15 years doing some level of due diligence. In 1992, he founded CareScience Inc., a supplier of technology tools used in practice management and patient care. He took it public in 2000. But he resigned in 2003 citing differences with the board over the strategic direction of the company. This opened the door for him to be Health Care-IT Czar, giving him an extraordinary perspective on the industry.

But…

Is this sector, which just emerging from the hangover of the "e-health days" of 1999-2000, going to be able to absorb $700 million? According to the published reports, Brailer expects to run through this dough in five years or less. That's $100 million per year or roughly 10% to 15% of what's gone into the health care IT sector and health care services sectors over each of the past two years, according to VentureOne. That’s an enormous influx of cash in a sector that only recently has begun showing some nice returns, albeit mostly on the clinical/hospital sides with companies like Visicu and Emageon.

Perhaps the Internet bubble has us conditioned to think that too much money is always a bad thing. Maybe this is just what the health care-IT czar ordered, a shock of cash to give this somewhat moribund business new life.

But is this good investing? Calpers, according to the reports, is more interested in finding companies with technologies that may someday save it money rather than making money on investments. This sounds an awful lot like a corporate venture capital program in which the parent company is more interested in identifying new technologies than seeing returns. But those corporate investors bring a lot more to the deal than capital. They bring distribution, marketing and usually an established customer base along with decades of expertise.

Brailer brings some of that to the deal, no doubt. He's promising discipline. He told the Sacramento Bee. "We're not going to give them money and say, 'Good luck.' It's going to be very hands-on with these companies." And Calpers could be a huge help if it quickly adopted the products put forth by Health Evolution Partners' portfolio. Brailer, in fact, boldly suggested to the Sacramento Bee that Calpers members could begin benefiting from these advances as soon as next year. (We placed a call at Health Evolution Partners and hadn’t heard back yet. We hope to run an interview with Brailer in an upcoming post.)

The fear here is Calpers is throwing money at a complex problem, and that money will be wasted because the infrastructure—customers, public investors, other sources of capital, regulatory freedom—just isn't in place to support these businesses. It certainly helps that they signed a talent to do the throwing for them. But time will tell whether money is all that was missing.