Hi, I have an interview up at O’Reilly Radar, talking about programmable self. I am also quoted in a Forbes article about Google Health. Busy week. -FT […]
Category: Google Health
Google Health: influential, controversial and gone.
Google Health is no more. Thats a shame, because I am writing a book on Health IT for O’Reilly and before this announcement, my rough draft featured Google Health extensively. I guess this is better, though, than having Google Health shut down just -after- I finished writing my book. Of course, I am going to […]
Google Health is dead, HealthVault Indivo win
Recently, Google announce that the Google Health PHR will be retiring. I posted the announcement to the Society for Participatory Medicine mailing list, and there has been alot of discussion about this, there. There are several issues that lots of people do not seem to understand, and some implications of this that have been missed. […]
Save Google Wave for Health IT
As most of you know Google has pulled the plug on the Google Wave project. Hemant Shah has made the great case for the use of Google Wave in Healthcare IT. He is right. Google committed to releasing the code as Open Source and at a minimum it should keep that commitment. Please support Hemant […]
Claims data in PHRs
Today the Boston Globe has published an article about Dave deBronkart’s problem with claim data in his Google Health PHR. I think it is awesome that the main stream press is picking up on the problem of using billing data for clinical work! A little digging reveals that there is an much better post over […]
Google Flu Trends and Privacy
Google.org, which is the philanthropic arm of Google, has released Google Flu Trends to great fanfare and criticism. Google Flu tracks searches for flu symptoms on Googles search service. So if I type “achy headache” into Google, it might count the search as evidence that I, or someone I was caring for, had the flu. […]
The coming problem with the ASP-lock
Here is an interesting post about a person who was locked out of their google account. Apparently, this person lost access to: Google Docs Gmail Family photos in Picasa If you read the updated post, you will find that he has already gotten back in. But this person knew to write a blog post. And […]
In all Fairness
Its time to set the record straight on what are valid criticisms of HealthVault and Google Health and what are not. If you have ever read my posts, then you can be sure that when an organization needs criticizing I am the first to give it them with both barrels. But here both Google and […]
Google Health vs. HealthVault round 1
Everyone is talking about Googles new PHR offering vs. Microsoft HealthVault. Mostly the talk is drivel. I was able to get a seat at the Press Interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt at HIMSS and, I kid you not, two reporters asked “Is the data in Google Health covered by HIPAA?” within five minutes of […]