MedTouch Blog – Making Healthcare Interactive

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 [...]

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Remember when Cerner dissed Google Health?  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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 establishing a health content startup, the final [...]

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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’s [...]

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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 [...]

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