Review of Google Health – Fact and Predictions
June 21, 2007
The e-Care Management Blog has a major article on Google Health. Reviewing all the Adam Bosworth has said over the past months, Vince Kuraitis addresses:
- The Current Market Structure for Personal Health Information (PHI)
- Google Health’s Anticipated Technology Model
- Three Leverage Points
- Google Health Will Be Disruptive
He concludes “The basic problem is that your PHI is 1) scattered everywhere, and 2) not in suitable, standardized formats. The GH technology model and business model offer solutions to both of these problems.”
Worth reading and then wait and see what Google really does.
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Interview with Dr. C. Martin Harris on PHRs
June 21, 2007
In an interview on HIMSS Weekly Insider, Dr. Harris of the Cleveland Clinic is interviewed about MyChart, the Clinic’s Personal Health record which is integrated with Epic System’s EMR. He discusses the value for patients including home monitoring for diabetes and notifying patients on specific medications when new research is available, such as, the FDA warning for the diabetes medication Avandia – over 700 patients were notified immediately using MyChart.
Three take-a-ways:
- “PHR tools are no longer ancillary; they are an integral part of the practice and delivery of high-quality medical services”
- “these tools empower patients to become active participants in their healthcare decisions”
- “these tools will fundamentally transform the way we currently think about the delivery of healthcare services”
New European eHealth Directory
June 20, 2007
The term eHealth is more commonly used in Europe than in the United States. Now there is a new ehealth directory for the EU which includes links to open source, news sources (including blogs), associations, government and research. Looks like it will grow as a resource. I hope that they will take advantage of US ehealth resources as well. Worth checking out from time-to-time.
Share this:The Future of RSS
June 19, 2007
In an article on ReadWrite, RSS is defined but also extended. Here are some quotes:
“So today RSS is a great distribution medium. Why? Because it has become ubiquitous. If you are an online business with customers and you do not utilize RSS, then you are simply missing out. Smart companies are leveraging blogs, photos, video, podcasts to stay in touch with customers daily. Other services, like del.icio.us (owned by Yahoo), allow users to publish and subscribe to feeds, enabling powerful social networks outside the website.”
“In order for RSS extensions to work, the second piece of the old technology dilemma needs to be solved. There needs to be a common format for communicating data between applications.”
So the future of RSS may be as a lightweight tool to transfer data between applications. More on this soon.
Share this:Medical Bloggers – Questioned and Cautious
June 19, 2007
In an article from the Detroit Free Press, blogging by physicians is examined, particularly ones that “tell all”. The article questions whether such blogs, where a physician discusses specific patients, should be policed. I agree that some physician bloggers and other medical professionals, should not mistake the anonymity of blogging as permission to vent their opinions about patients’ personal characteristics. What can be helpful about medical blogging is lost in such postings. Medical blogs are most effective if they focus on either medical education or give insight into how doctors think.
Share this:My Post on Patient as Driver Cited on eHealth Smart Brief
June 13, 2007
In the eHealth Smart Brief newsletter, my June 6th quoted under the title of “Blog: Get consumers involved in the health care process.” The quote is: “Every health system and hospital will be following leads like this to survive in this more transparent health care market where cost and quality will drive business.”
Comments welcome. eHealth Smart Brief is a quality email newsletter. Worth the time.
Share this:Web 2.0 Values vs. Health Care Values
June 12, 2007
Some have commented on a slide in my presentation about this topic contrasting disruptive Web 2.0 values such as risk taking opposing health care values, risk adverse. The interesting thing is that good medical practice by nature is collaborative and should embrace Web 2.0. But the conservative side of medicine will continue to hold back some of the potential of Web 2.0. Ves Dimov of Clinical Cases and Images has his “own theory about the 6 axes of medical education in Web 2.0 style.”
Share this:Patient as Driver
June 7, 2007
Wayne A. Sensor is CEO of Alegent Health, Omaha, Neb. has written an article on the Most Wired website on “Taking the Wheel: Empowering Users to Make Informed Health Care Choices.” He utilizes the concept of patient as driver to draw attention to what he calls the last frontier for consumers, healthcare. “We must surround consumers with the information they need to complete the value equation: price plus quality equals value.” Adam Bosworth could not have said it better. Alegent has on their homepage two key tools which he would describe as patient empowerment tools
- MyCost – to help consumers understand their deductable and other out-of-pocket costs
- Quality Reports – detailed scorecard by disease
Every health system and hospital will be following leads like this to survive in this more transparent healthcare market where cost and quality will drive business.
Share this:Interest in Web 2.0 in Health Care
June 6, 2007
Posting my slides on Web 2.0 in health care generated some interest:
Thanks for the postings – I hope it stimulates some new thinking.
Share this:My Presentation on Web 2.0 in Healthcare to the Northern Ohio HIMSS
June 5, 2007
On Friday I presented at the conference of Northern Ohio Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society in Cleveland. The powerpoint is posted here. There was a positive response with lots of interest in hearing more. There is also an initiative to do more with SecondLife as the activity on the Cleveland Island grows. I am not a member yet, but probably will sign on soon.
The other presentations from the conference are worth checking out:
- Erica Drazen from FCG on Emerging Trends in Healthcare Information Technology
- Brad Chilton of University Hospitals of Cleveland on Infrastructure and Sourcing Strategies
- and two speakers on biotech innovation in Cleveland (presentations forthcoming) - a current hotbed for investment.
