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 […]

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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. […]

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Trust but Verify and Trust but Fork

I have enjoyed participating in the National Dialogue about Health IT. One of the challenges put forward to my suggestion that decision makers should insist on FOSS in Health IT, was the following comment:  in terms of privacy, there’s nothing inherent in FOSS that makes it superior to all proprietary products. I have discussed this […]

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HealthVault team responds to security model criticism.

In further evidence that the Microsoft HealthVault team might actually be making good on a move towards real openness. Sean Nolan has addressed some of my criticisms in a post entitled Sharing Data using HealthVault I have updated the post in question to correct the errors that I had made. However, even with the correction […]

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