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 […]
Category: PHR
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Defining terms
(Update August 9th 2016: This site has been dead for some time. But there is a wayback machine link that lives on) NAHIT has released its definitions. In summary: An EMR is a record for the doctor. An EHR is a record for the doctors. (with data ready to move) A PHR is a record […]
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 […]