Add unemployment to the impact of Facebook in healthcare: nurse is fired in Detroit

Hospital fires a nurse over Facebook comments Oakwood Hospital let a nurse go for posting remarks about a suspected cop-killer in her care. Per the dismissal: “As healthcare providers, we have a legal and ethical responsibility to protect patient privacy and we are bound by HIPAA rules and regulations to ensure that we do so. All of our...

WWDD — What Will Tom Daschle Do?

The former Senator Tom Daschle has been picked for the HHS top spot, and there’s been some excellent speculation — I mean, coverage about what Daschle might do once in office.   I think we often miss the forest for the trees when we talk in these grand policy terms.  Sure, the healthcare system is broken.  I think you’d be...

Prove Me Wrong, Medpedia? Free Health Information Coming Soon.

A few days after my post regarding the confusion of the wiki editorial system, comes this news:  The Medpedia Project today announced the formation of the world’s largest collaborative online encyclopedia of medicine called Medpedia. Physicians, medical schools, hospitals, health organizations and public health professionals are now...

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...

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...