Comments on: Search Engines Using Your Personal Health Information: Creepy or Cutting Edge? http://e-CareManagement.com/search-engines-using-your-personal-health-information-creepy-or-cutting-edge/ Chronic Disease Management • Technology • Strategy • Issues and Trends Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:40:15 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Tim Kieschnick http://e-CareManagement.com/search-engines-using-your-personal-health-information-creepy-or-cutting-edge/comment-page-1/#comment-8172 Tim Kieschnick Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:42:50 +0000 http://e-CareManagement.com/search-engines-using-your-personal-health-information-creepy-or-cutting-edge/#comment-8172 One of the solutions, that we're using here at Kaiser Permanente, is to extend the notion of "search" far beyond the act of typing something into a search box and seeing a list of results. E.g., I might click on my current diagnosis to see related articles, or my doctor might automatically push messages to me based on my current medications. Both of these can use search technology to deliver highly relevant content, but without requiring me to type a search term. In addition, these scenarios do a lot better job of dealing with proxy issues. If I'm researching a question about my mother's health, I don't want the results filtered based on my own history. But if my mother has authorized me to access her PHR, then by clicking on an item in her list of diagnoses, I'm telling the search engine that I'm looking for info relevant to my mother. One of the solutions, that we’re using here at Kaiser Permanente, is to extend the notion of “search” far beyond the act of typing something into a search box and seeing a list of results. E.g., I might click on my current diagnosis to see related articles, or my doctor might automatically push messages to me based on my current medications. Both of these can use search technology to deliver highly relevant content, but without requiring me to type a search term.

In addition, these scenarios do a lot better job of dealing with proxy issues. If I’m researching a question about my mother’s health, I don’t want the results filtered based on my own history. But if my mother has authorized me to access her PHR, then by clicking on an item in her list of diagnoses, I’m telling the search engine that I’m looking for info relevant to my mother.

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