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By: John

John — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:52:22 +0000

Thanks for providing your insight David having worked directly with the Google team. Unfortunately, I can not share your feelings of being “impressed with what they have done” as I see this latest announcement as one of pretty simplistic and common functionality found in a multitude of solutions already in the market. I become even more disillusioned when looking closely at the share feature, I see nothing more than a simple porting over of the tools already used for Google Docs. Sure, I’m all for not reinventing the wheel, but honestly, I really had hoped for more and believe the market is expecting more as well.

By: David C. Kibbe, MD MBA

David C. Kibbe, MD MBA — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:55:44 +0000

Dear John: I’ve worked with the Google Health team as a volunteer for over a year now, and, although I understand your disappointment that they aren’t moving faster, I’m still impressed with what they’ve done and am confident that they’ll continue to make small improvements that will eventually result in a substantial application for storage, transfer, and computation using one’s personal health data.

The way Google as a company works is exactly what you’re seeing. Small improvements, some announced, some merely appearing in the app. This is the way Google Docs works, the way Google Earth was developed, and so on.

If hospitals, health plans, doctors offices, labs, and other sources of personal data were more forthcoming in allowing us, the patients/consumers, to access our information in computable format — well, then I believe we’d see Google Health’s team moving more quickly with more resources devoted to the small group that’s working on Google Health’s applications now. Their partners in the H20 ecosystem would also be moving more quickly. I think the governing factor here in terms of development of personal health apps i general is not Google or Microsoft and their resources. It’s the public’s lack of eagerness to adopt PHRs and use them for wellness and health engagement. This takes time.

With kind regards, DCK

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Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:10:13 +0000

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