Future of health care in developing nations tied to cell phonesFrom Microsoft's WinHEC conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie shows what could be the future of health care in developing nations using an example of a patient who is illiterate--but like a lot of...
Google CEO Eric Schmidt to Hillary Clinton: Welcome to Google!Senator Hillary Clinton: I am thrilled to be at the “best place to work in America” that is “helping to invent the future” and has “revolutionized the way we live, work, think…”So began a one on one in February between the...
“Good and scary,” so headlined Anil Dash of the new Google “Web History” user tracking tool. “Google’s privacy nightmare just starting,” so declared Om Malik, noting a Washington Post story of a complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission FTC seeking an injunction against the announced Google purchase of...
Andy Grove on a flawed health care systemAndy Grove talks with CNET News.com's Miriam Olsson about the importance of properly incorporating IT into the health care system.
Georgia health officials announced recently that nearly 3 million names, birth dates and Social Security numbers were exposed to possible identity theft, reports the Associated Press. A disk with Medicaid and childrens health care recipients information is missing, Georgia health officials said Tuesday. Affiliated Computer Services, which contracts with...
Health Care Information Technology HCIT is a niche market, a $31 billion niche, according to Cain Brothers, “investment bankers to the health care industry.”Raymond Falci, Managing Director, addressed the New York Software Industry Association this evening on the “Wall Street View” of the HCIT market opportunity.The Healthcare Information and Management...
Google’s Adam Bosworth is on a mission, a medical one, evangelizing that “increased and more targeted use of technology will help improve healthcare for all.”Since December, Bosworth, Vice President, Engineering, has been making a Google case for empowering consumers via health information technology.Below is a summary.“Connecting Americans to Their Health...
Can the worlds largest search engine and the worlds largest retailer solve the nations health care problems?The U.S. health care market is projected to be a $4 trillion one by 2015.Google Vice President Adam Bosworth and Wal-Mart Vice Chairman John Menzer are personally invested in seeking to improve the health...
Edition number 30 in this Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Are Amazon, Netflix, Columbia House shipping thousands of DVDs to Iowans? Perhaps. The DVD retailers and renters, however, are facing competition this week, not-for-profit DVD competition, from the John Edwards...
The online healthcare space is heating up big time, with a new Microsoft initiative. Last month I put forth “Google Health URL trumped by Steve Case?” Adam Bosworth, Vice President, Google: Every ill person needs a “health URL,” an online meeting place where their caregivers, with express permission...
In a rare public statement about a subject other than iPods or Macs, Steve Jobs said that "unionization and lifetime employment of K-12 teachers is off-the-charts crazy," and that technology in the classroom isnt going to improve public schools until principals can fire bad teachers. He also talked about a...
Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is identified as “A Celebrity on Yahoo Answers!” She has been a member since September 29, 2006 and she is at Level One with 96 points. Since Clinton announced her candidacy last weekend, however, she is noted to have earned -3 points the past week....
In “Google’s unhealthy medical plan” I put forth Google’s vision for a day when the Google cloud houses every piece of personal data pertaining to “every single medical and health-related event” of every single individual.Adam Bosworth, Vice President, Google:Every ill person needs a “health URL,” an online meeting place where...
While the tech world is talking about Apple tablet PCs, iPhones and such ahead of Macworld, Wall Street rumors are percolating about Steve Jobs health. In a blog post recapping 10 things hes hearing on Wall Street, hedge fund manager...
In Washington DC, the city council passed a bill that will require medical personnel to report "adverse medical events" to a central database that one day will be made available over the Web, The Washington Post reports. The requirements are among the most substantive revisions in more than 20...
Google love is a powerful force, as I often underscore (see “Google: The Anti-Microsoft”). BUT:Should Google love be unconditional?Should Google love blind users of the risks they run by using its services?Should Google love exempt the Google corporation from scrutiny of its stated and real desire to manipulate all of...
Adam Bosworth of Google gave a speech at the "Connecting Americans to Their Health Care" conference citing their ongoing efforts in the healthcare industry. They have already started giving patients and caregivers easier access to the information found on the Internet through Google Co-op, but that is a very...
Last week I had dinner with Omid Moghadam [below left] and Anne Chapman of Intel. They had just had an interesting day meeting with a variety of would-be supporters in Washington: The Wall Street Journal had just broken – a week early – the news of a new coalition...
Just when one thought the controversy had been laid to rest on whether Wi-Fi is dangerous to human health, two UK schools have banned wireless networks over health concerns, reports ZDNet UK Last week, the U.K. Department of Health set up an inquiry into the potential dangers of...
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