Why Even Google Can’t Fix Healthcare

Of my last post about open source food, Jeff Jarvis commented: I wasn’t suggesting that the kitchen should be turned over. I’m exploring the ideas of openness even in restaurants. For example, I’d like to know which dishes get ordered more so I can use that in my decision. Or perhaps diners can suggest improvements in recipes. And so...

Eating New Media

And by way of continuing the conversation from yesterday, Jeff Jarvis wonders if Google ran a restaurant, who would do the cooking? Besides the silliness of open source restaurants as a concept — technique matters far more than recipe — the NY Times contrasted that notion with the need for efficiency in dining, noting that too many...

Blue Cross Blue Shield to Offer Google Health in Massachusetts

Remember when Cerner dissed Google Health?Β  This news came out today in the Globe about Google Health and BCBS of Mass: Come this fall, members of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts will be able to go online to look up their healthcare claims and some medical records, which the insurer says will help patients manage their medical care...

Cerner Disses Google Health. Surprised?

Cerner Disses Google Health. Surprised? Posted using ShareThis Comment: It would make sense for Cerner to partner with both Google and Microsoft, because it is in the best interest of the patient. People are wanting and needing more control over their health records, and this would be one more way for them to get control. It would behoove...

What the free market thinks about patients

I was fascinated by this article about the challenges of healthcare content startups. No so much about why such companies exist, but in hearing about how the general market views “patients” and “consumers” and what implications that has for healthcare institutions. After an afternoon discussing the challenges of...

Microsoft HealthVault vs. Google Health

Here is an excellent blog post about HealthVault vs. Google Health. It’s worth a read-through, but the thing that’s clear to us is that neither Microsoft or Google is thinking too much yet about how the hospital institution will interact with the data they collect. Since they’re more in the PHR model — well,...

Google and Your Health Record – Fulfilling Their Mission and Yours

Google is one step closer to organizing the world’s information. It has announced in the Wall Street Journal this week that it will begin to allow people to put their health records on the web. Actually within Google, which really isn’t the web. On the web would probably be a little too broad since that usually means it can be searched for and...

More on Google’s Partnership with Cleveland Clinic

I was in the midst of the great towers of GE, Cerner, Microsoft, and the other glittering HIMSS palaces and there was one player out of place: Google. It had such a modest footprint and has been so quiet about the partnership with Cleveland Clinic, you’d never know they launched a major initiative. There were no banners advertising Google...

Google and Cleveland Clinic Join Forces to Organize Your Health

Last week Google and Cleveland Clinic announced that they will be working together to give patients better access and flexibility to their health records. What an idea! People “in charge of their own health information.” Wow! Why did Google have to revolutionize this? Aren’t they just a search engine? Yes, they are a search...