Tim Churches wrote: > Tony Eviston wrote: >> It looks as though Google are taking the concept seriously including >> some google-side decision support systems >> >> >> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/is-there-doctor-in-family.html >> >> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-do-you-know-youre-getting-best-care.html > > I'll happily bet that within 2 years Google will unilaterally come up > with a Web-based EHR and associated decision-support tools which is > better than anything else anyone else is doing, and they'll offer it for > free, perhaps with some restrained advertising to support it.
I should add, as teh above blog hints at, the Google EHR will be squarely targetted at health care consumers, and teh decision support tools it will offer will be targetted at consumers, offering links to or pre-digested background information on health problems and diseases, advice on treatment and management options, possibly comparative information of health care providers (including perhaps performance comparisons, certainly pricing comparisons in the US setting), and preventive health advice and decision support tools (risk calculators, tools to track weight, BP etc). It is easy to imagine their initial offering, which appears as "Google health" as an additional option when you log in to Google Mail or Google Calendar etc. You can enter details yourself, or you can provide permission for nominated medical attendants to be able to see and modify your record, in the same way that Google Calendar allows you to share your calendars with others (and it works!). Pretty soon, each time your GP checks your BP of measures your lipids, the results start to appear in Google health via the Google health API interface from Medical Director etc. And Google Health offers all sorts of visualisation and analysis tools to allow consumers to make sense of these data about themselves. It is not hard to imagine, and Google is smart enough and rich enough to make it all work. Hmmm. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
