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Shocking Google Health Back to Life

By SCOTT SHREEVE, MD I hope to use this post to motivate my good friends at Google Health into taking a much more public, visible, and proactive role in the health conversation. More importantly, it is a call to Google...
August 14, 2009 in Google, Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (15)

Bringing Patients into the Health IT Conversation About "Meaningful Use"

By DAVID C. KIBBE and BRIAN KLEPPER The Obama health team at HHS and ONC are gradually establishing the rules that will determine how approximately $34 billion in ARRA/HITECH funds are spent on health IT over the next several years....
May 21, 2009 in Brian Klepper, Consumers, David Kibbe, Electronic Medical Records, Google, Health 2.0, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Marketplace, Policy, Policy/Politics, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (35)

More on HITECH , Microsoft mea culpas, Google, et al

By Matthew Holt I draw your attention to a troika of articles, all of which show how things can be slightly misinterpreted. First, who knew that Blackford Middleton was either the most influential health policy wonk out there, or single-handedly...
May 19, 2009 in Google, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Technology | Permalink | Comments (2)

A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Continuity of Care Record Gains Ground As A Standard

By BRIAN KLEPPER We live in a time of such great progress in so many arenas that, too often and without a second thought, we take significant advances for granted. But, now and then, we should catalog the steps forward,...
April 10, 2009 in Brian Klepper, Consumers, David Kibbe, Electronic Medical Records, Google, Health 2.0, Personalized Medicine, Policy, Policy/Politics, Technology, The Industry, Transparency, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (21)

Google Health sharing--simple but potentially important

By Matthew Holt Today late afternoon PST Google flipped the switch on an important change/add to Google Health. Recently they’ve been adding more and more little features, such as printing & graphing, and in the last month getting CVS retail...
March 4, 2009 in Consumers, e-patients, Electronic Medical Records, Google, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Physicians, Technology | Permalink | Comments (11)

Confusing 'Standards' With 'Interoperability'--Lessons For The 111th Congress From HIPAA

By Rick Peters, MD As we debate whether or not the Obama Administration and the 111th Congress should work towards directly funding EHRs, one of the key questions seems to be whether or not EHRs and interoperability standards are mature...
January 7, 2009 in Electronic Medical Records, Google, Health 2.0, Policy, Policy/Politics, RHIOs, Technology | Permalink | Comments (11)

Google Health: Is It Good For You?

By AMY TENDERICH Note: Amy Tenderich, who writes and maintains the wonderful Diabetes Mine, just did this very illuminating interview with Google Health's Missy Krassner. As you'll see, she doesn't slow-pitch to Missy. This is a sure-footed, tough-minded exchange about...
October 7, 2008 in Google, Health 2.0, Marketplace, Online Communities, Privacy, Quality, Technology, The Industry, User Generated Content, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (2)

23andme gets unwanted publicity

By Matthew Holt Sergey Brin, Google co-founder and husband of 23andme co-founder Anne Wojcicki, has announced that he has the gene for Parkinson’s disease and that his mother carries it to. She already has the disease, as did her aunt....
September 19, 2008 in Google, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt | Permalink | Comments (10)

Adam Bosworth speaks about Google Health, Keas and everything

By Matthew Holt After a long period of time I’ve finally wrestled Adam Bosworth to the floor and forced the microphone to his mouth. Adam of course is the software guru (he’s one of the originators of XML) who went...
September 3, 2008 in Consumers, e-patients, Electronic Medical Records, Google, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Online Communities, Technology, User Generated Content | Permalink | Comments (2)

Google's strategy (mostly outside of health care)

By Matthew Holt VC Fred Wilson explains where he thinks Google is going in Chrome, Android, and The Cloud. The Health 2.0 team is about 3 months into using Google Docs (especially the spreadsheet) and although Docs continues to have...
September 3, 2008 in Google, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Technology | Permalink | Comments (0)

Omnimedix still fighting Dossia owners

By Matthew Holt JD Kleinke and Omnimedix are still in business and still fighting a pretty serious lawsuit about the Dossia breakup. I talked with JD yesterday. The team is working on several super secret client projects, but it’s tough...
August 13, 2008 in Electronic Medical Records, Google, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Technology | Permalink | Comments (1)

Knol and web publishing challenge medical journals' stronghold

By Bob Wachter Yesterday, Google launched Knol, immediately branded as Google’s answer to Wikipedia. As health care adviser to the project, I’ll say a few words about Knol, but focus on how it – and other forms of electronic self-publishing...
July 25, 2008 in Bob Wachter, Google, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (7)

Google Health and the PHR: Do Consumers Care?

By Keith Schorsch Google Health’s unveiling last week and Microsoft’s HealthVault launch last October are important milestones in the evolution of Health 2.0. Both of these heavyweights have the resources and potential to improve the health consumer’s customer experience. I...
July 1, 2008 in Consumers, Google, Health 2.0, Online Communities | Permalink | Comments (28)

Kaiser tiptoes into HealthVault & tells THCB about it, with UPDATE

By Matthew Holt Kaiser Permanente signed on this morning for a pretty extensive pilot with Microsoft, allowing its 159,000 employees to copy their online health records into HealthVault. This is a big coup for Microsoft and a fairly ambitious move...
June 9, 2008 in Electronic Medical Records, Google, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Podcasts, Technology | Permalink | Comments (11)

Google Health -- A serious test drive

By Matthew Holt After all the fuss, I thought that I should take Google Health for a real test drive. So I did. Given that it contains a gazillion screenshots, I did it in the form of a slide show...
June 5, 2008 in Google, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt | Permalink | Comments (9)

Google Health -- A view from the Inside

By Robert Wachter Google Health launched last Monday, which sent the world’s Google-watchers into a tizzy. I serve on Google Health's Advisory Council – which met all day Tuesday – and so here’s a bit of inside dish, along with...
May 28, 2008 in Google, Technology | Permalink | Comments (14)

A Google Health Clinical Exam

By CRAIG STOLTZ Not one more pixel need be spilt about the issues of privacy, security, HIPAA, metastatic data, third-party crashers, or corporate imperial overreach raised by the debut of Google Health. Let’s just snap on the latex gloves and...
May 26, 2008 in Google, Technology | Permalink | Comments (4)

Google Health finally up and open for business

After a long time in discussion, Google publicly launched Monday its free online personal health records. The operation first made headlines a couple of months ago when Google announced it at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). I...
May 20, 2008 in Consumers, Electronic Medical Records, Google, Health 2.0, Technology, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (3)

More on Google and the Cleveland Clinic

For a start, as I said in my last post and many times, and at least one of these commenters has written at length, the benefits of sharing health data in clinical situations massively outweigh the risk. So that should...
February 25, 2008 in Google, Privacy, Technology | Permalink | Comments (21)

Google, the Cleveland Clinic and the Privacy Zealots

So Modern Healthcare's Joseph Conn has a whole page to write about the Cleveland Clinic and he writes just about HIPAA and the fact that this pilot is not going to be covered by it. Writing in the San Francisco...
February 24, 2008 in Electronic Medical Records, Google, Privacy | Permalink | Comments (8)