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Information & Communication Technologies (ICT)

World Health Care Blog

April 3, 2007

I’m honored to have been invited to be a guest blogger at the World Health Care Blog, an innovative experiment by the World Health Care Congress. Today’s question is: Technology in Health Care: Villain or Hero?

Google Gets It: Personal Health Information is Really Complex

March 29, 2007

Google gets it. Adam Bosworth, Google Vice President, ruminates over the question “How do you know you’re getting the best care possible?”

I give Adam a lot of credit for this posting:

He acknowledges that health care is really complicated
He understands the dangers — that providing less than perfect information has the possibility of causing harm
He doesn’t claim to have all the answers
He asks for input

Many have been speculating about Google’s entry into health care. Read Jeff […]

Practice Fusion’s EHR: Can Google’s “Endorsement” Overcome a Weak Business Model?

March 18, 2007

Practice Fusion (PF) has announced a deal with Google to provide a free electronic health record (EHR) to physicians. The EHR will be supported by ad revenues from pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies and others. Read more here.

What’s the connection to care management and chronic disease? EHRs and personal health records (PHRs) are wildcards in the care management equation. You can look at this two ways: 1) The lack of EHRs and PHRs is a potential rate-limiting step […]