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- Google Health is Tom Sawyer work
- Google Health is Tom Sawyer workIs Google your ObamaPlease Dan, this is so totally off-base as to not even be funny. Google has partners and so does HealthVault. Google offers a rudimentary PHR that relies heavily on the consumer to populate, HealthVault is not even a PHR but...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, Google Inc., Tom Sawyer, HealthVault, PHR, Google Health, health care
- Discussion threads 2008-03-20
- Google Health makes its pitch
- Google Health makes its pitchGiving people data...While I'm sure giving Google your data is good for their analytics division, I think there are other options for patient activists like http://righthealth.com and http://curehunter.com .I wonder what kind of business model they are going to put on this? Selling anonymous data...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Google Inc., PHR, health care, Google Health
- Discussion threads 2008-02-25
- Are we our workers' keepers?
- 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...
- Tags: PHR, Uncategorized, health
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
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- Tennessee midwifes AT
- Tennessee midwifes ATMicrosoft is not getting my medical recordsThere's no way I'll allow MSFT to mine my medical data. Or Google for that matter.Here's the thingWhen you put your EMR into Google or Microsoft you make it a PHR. It's yours. Not theirs. You are the one who...
- Tags: EMR, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Are you underinsured?
- Are you underinsured?The problem is costs.Being uninsured is not the problem. It is a symptom. It is the cost of medicine. It is so expensive, that we cannot afford the insurance no matter who handles the policy. The profit margins on all the suppliers of medicine are absurd. A push...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Being Uninsured, Insurance deductible, health care, insurance, national healthcare
- Discussion threads 2008-06-11
- How much of health IT will go into the clouds?
- One fact tieing together many of today's health IT trends is cloud computing. When medical offices do their computing as a service, it's being done in the cloud. When you move your health records into Google Health it's coming in from the cloud. What...
- Tags: Information Technology, Health Care, Cloud, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Ready for the iProd?
- I felt certain this was an April Fool's joke, but apparently there's a real patent application behind it. (Picture from New Scientist.) Call it the iProd. The idea is you load it with answers to health-related questions, which the device uses to create a...
- Tags: Monitor, Health Care, Monitors & Displays, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Hardware, Components, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- VeriChip goes consumer with its implantable RFID chips; Would you buy?
- VeriChip said Tuesday it will begin pitching its implantable RFID chips directly to consumers in a move that aims to link doctors directly to personal health records. VeriChip said it will launch a direct-to-consumer marketing campaign in South Florida on April 28. The general idea appears...
- Tags: VeriChip, Health Care, RFID Chip, Personal Health Record, Chip, Microsoft HealthVault, Health Link, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Can Tolven give Medsphere the lift it needs?
- Medsphere's efforts to revolutionize hospital computing with an open source code base (derived from the VA's VistA system) got a big boost at HIMSS with news it would partner with Tolven Inc. The reason is only now becoming apparent. Tolven's founders, most of them former Oracle executives, have...
- Tags: Medsphere, Tolven Inc., TolvenHealth, Tolven Institute, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Creating personal health record value from the bottom up
- A Health information index Hii system creates value from a personal health record PHR by linking that record to a knowledge base and telling patients what they can about what ails them. It's part of a 20-year quest by Steve Beller right, a clinical psychologist by training who...
- Tags: Health Care, Personal Health Record, Health Information Index System, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Will privacy keep Health 2.0 from the starting gate?
- The Health 2.0 conference in San Diego this week was a sell-out, and the schmoozefest was filled with the kind of promise which Janet Dillione of Siemens spoke about last week. (Picture from the Health 2.0 wiki.) But will privacy concerns strangle Health 2.0 in its crib?...
- Tags: Privacy, Fact, Health Care, Personal Health Record, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- Google vs. Microsoft game is afoot
- Google vs. Microsoft game is afootI still don't get why anyone wants a PHR...I'd much rather use the EMR web access provided by my health care provider, since it is always up-to-date and I don't need to spend all my time filling it in. Plus I can schedule appointments...
- Tags: Games, Vertical industries, Google Inc., Fred, Microsoft Corp., game
- Discussion threads 2008-03-04
- Google vs. Microsoft game is afoot
- GPLMedicine advocate Fred Trotter right has given some inspection to both Google Health and Microsoft's HealthVault, coming down solidly on Google's side. Trotter writes that Google Health's privacy policies and APIs are superior to those of Microsoft HealthVault, and its access control system looks better. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Flaw, Trotter, Games, Security, Personal Technology, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- Microsoft HealthVault is nothing like Google Health
- Microsoft HealthVault is nothing like Google Healthif MS started an alliance, then we could have OpenMedical, eh?!HealthVaultVery different strategies that Microsoft and Google are pursuing in the personal healthcare tech sector. One critical difference that the article does not make though is that HealthVault is NOT a PHR, it...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft HealthVault, health care, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
- Google Health makes its pitch
- With CEO Eric Schmidt not due in for HIMSS until Thursday, ZDNet got a sneak preview of the pitch for Google Health today. Project Manager Missy Krasner called the site "a proxy for the consumer." All data entry, and data delivery, will happen behind a https secure...
- Tags: Google Inc., Health Care, Clinic, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- Healthvault asks the questions while Google goes beta
- Healthvault asks the questions while Google goes betaHealthvault asks the questions while Google goes betaI would never use Google's health services. Simply for the reason they are not certified and have no experience in this field. Google is the biggest violator of privacy rights, something everyone in the healthcare...
- Tags: HIPAA, Google Inc., HealthVault, covered entity, beta
- Discussion threads 2008-02-21
- Will you trust your medical information to Google?
- The Cleveland Clinic has announced a partnership with Google that will essentially be a soft launch of the long-awaited Google Health personal health record service. Privacy concerns may not be too far behind. According to a statement, Google will help the Cleveland Clinic to offer personal health...
- Tags: Google Inc., Interoperability, Goal, Personal Health Record, Cleveland Clinic, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- Mayo to brand Microsoft health site
- Mayo to brand Microsoft health siteCobranding vs. PartnershipsThe analogy here is flawed. The idea of Microsft (a technology/software company) and Mayo a healthcare SME with a variety of content makes perfect sense. Assuming they will actually be working together as their press release states Mayoshould actually provide MS...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Mayo, health care, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Health, brand
- Discussion threads 2008-01-31
- What the electronic medical record movement needs
- What the electronic medical record movement needsBut Consensus REQUIRES Leadership!Dana:As usual, you're absolutely right about consensus among vendors and standards would go a long way toward making ubiquitous electronic medical records a reality. But such consensus itself requires leadership. Such leadership must be able to persuade stakeholders to resist sometimes...
- Tags: E-health, HEALTHCARE, electronic health record, leadership, electronic medical record movement, MedicAlert, patient
- Discussion threads 2008-01-15
- Employer group offers patient control of health records
- Employer group offers patient control of health recordsJust one questionHow do I verify that all extant copies have been deleted?Tooth FairyI am putting a quarter under my pillow now... ;)RE: Employer group offers patient control of health recordsGiven that Craig Barrett believes that the healthcare system is not capable of...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, Dossia, patient, health care, health record
- Discussion threads 2007-09-20
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