I'm a huge fan of telecommuting, as I'm sure I've mentioned on this blog previously, because it gives me control of my schedule and allows me to spend more time with my family. And even though I no longer have to finger tap my way through bumper to bumper traffic on Route 66, there are still a few situations in life where the ease of the Internet hasn't seemed to break through the logjams and inefficiencies of everyday life. 

I'm thinking of the DMV, or the security line at Dulles and, of course, the doctor's office.  My mother just returned from a visit to a cardiologist where she says she spent 15 minutes in the waiting room, five minutes in the exam room with a nurse, and one minute with the doctor.  He ordered a test and asked her to return the next week.

This is precisely the kind of situation that doesn't have to happen anymore and that Dr. Randall Wolf is solving, one patient at a time, in his own practice. Internet entrepreneurs and the medical community have long flirted over potential time-saving, outcome-improving, mood-enhancing applications, but perhaps they are overlooking one of the most obvious and easiest to implement.