LAS VEGAS -- I entered the show floor here at Interop, a long-running IT and networking technology conference, only to be bombarded with the words "cloud computing." For those of you who don't know what it is -- in addition to being the hottest technology marketing concept du jour -- it's the idea that you can tap into computing services and applications by "plugging into the cloud" of a service provider, rather than building the technology infrastructure yourself. This can work on an individual level or a corporate level. On a personal consumer level, I think a good example of cloud computing is Web photo services. We used to manage and store photos ourselves -- first in analog format and later in a digital mode. Increasingly, consumers are turning to a managed photo service where they store photos on a company's servers, to access and manage as they please. On a corporate level, the same thing is happening: companies are increasingly outsourcing technology and IT infrastructure to the "cloud" -- that is, a network that they can connect to remotely.

LOS ANGELES -- On Monday April 26, a panel moderated by CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo including executives and leaders including Michael Milken convened to discuss Health Reform in a session focused on "Prevention and Cures". The primary focus of the discussion was the need for government policy and health reform to address "wellness" and chronic diseases such as diabetes. One of the conclusions from the panel is that the healthcare reform recently been enacted into law is "uneconomic" and has put prevention and wellness on the "back-burner" even though unhealthy living represents a major  cost to society. A lingering concern is that we are a few years away from price-setting of medical products and services.