Last week the Washington Post published an article on the fervor surrounding the iPhone and the slew of independent developers that are making boat-loads of money by creating apps for the iPhone. As the article correctly points out, Apple’s goal is not so much to make money from selling these apps, but to become the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Google’
The Mobile App Goldrush
Posted in PHR, tagged Android, Blackberry, Google, iPhone, mHealth, Microsoft, mobile app, Nokia, Symbian on January 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Whacking the Privacy Zealots
Posted in PHR, policy, Privacy, tagged Google, Microsoft, PHR, Privacy on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Matt Holt, owner and master of The Health Care Blog, has an excellent post today on PHRs and privacy. It is a long post, at times more of a rambling rant, but in the end it does a great job of thoroughly reviewing a lot of the brouhaha surrounding this topic and discrediting many of [...]
Schmidt’s HIMSS Presentation: Google Health
Posted in Google, PHR, tagged Google, HIMSS, PHR on March 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here is the full Google presentation given by CEO Schmidt to a full house at last week’s HIMSS conference. You probably will not learn much more than what I have already provided in previous posts over the last couple of weeks, but I did find that last 12 minutes or so of most interest. But [...]
Enough About the Gorillas, How About a Lemur
Posted in consumer health, Google, Microsoft, PHR, telehealth, tagged Google, HIMSS, Microsoft, speech pathology, telehealth, TinyEye on March 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Plenty has been written, both here and elsewhere about the two 800-pound gorillas, Google and Microsoft’s, respective plays in the consumer healthcare sector. Yes, what they are doing is extremely important to this industry and will change the healthcare industry in ways we have yet to imagine, but let’s giving this story some breathing room, [...]
McKinsey Interview with Cleveland Clinic CEO
Posted in Google, PHR, policy, tagged Cleveland Clinic, Google, PHR on March 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The latest edition of The McKinsey’s Quarterly report has an interesting interview with Cleveland Clinic’s CEO, Toby Cosgrove. Nothing earth-shattering is revealed, but interview does give some insight into Cleveland Clinic and its operating philosophy. This provides further color, albeit implied, to the recent partnership between Google Health and Cleveland Clinic. Note: You’ll have to [...]
Good Post on Google & Microsoft Platforms
Posted in consumer health, Google, Microsoft, PHR, tagged AHIMA, Google, health, HealthVault, Microsoft, PHR on March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Vince, over on his e-Care Management blog has a good post up today where he compares the respective consumer healthcare platforms from Microsoft (HealthVault) and Google Health. Bottom line for Vince is that there are more similarities than differences between these two initiatives and that consumer engagement will be their collective top challenge. Certainly agree [...]
Microsoft Comes Clean on Privacy
Posted in consumer health, Google, Microsoft, PHR, policy, Privacy, tagged Google, Microsoft, PHR, Privacy on February 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Little over a week ago I had a post that discussed the recent release of the World Privacy Forum report on PHRs. In that particular post I hit Microsoft pretty hard for not extending their tight privacy policies to the numerous partners that were signing on to HealthVault. I based that comment on a conversation [...]
Google’s Schmidt Outlines Health Platform
Posted in consumer health, Dossia, Google, health portals, Microsoft, PHR, PHS, tagged Google, health, HealthVault, HIMSS, Microsoft, PHR on February 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Though Google announced the formal unveiling of their PHR last week, via the deal with Cleveland Clinic, today was the true coming out event when Google CEO Eric Schmidt formally introduced Google Health to the throngs at HIMSS during his keynote. Based on the demo I received at HIMSS, conversations I have had and comments [...]
HIMSS – Part Deux
Posted in consumer health, Google, Microsoft, PHR, PHS, tagged ActiveHealth, Aetna, Agfa, eHealth, Google, HIMSS, ICW, LifeSensor, Microsoft, nomoreclipboard, PHR, RelayHealth, Sun, WebMD on February 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Back home from my two day whirlwind tour of HIMSS. Here’s what I have for you from Day Two. Significantly slower on Tuesday, though it did pick up later in the afternoon. So was everyone out playing golf or hanging out by the pool before the rain set in, or were they at one of [...]
Snap Shots from HIMSS
Posted in EMR, Google, P4P, PHR, tagged Epic, GE, Google, HIMSS, Philips, PHR, Siemens on February 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Here at the big, dare I say massive, healthcare IT (HIT) conference for the next couple of days. It is late, I’m exhausted, and the prose may not be the best, but wanted to give a few impressions/snap shots from this first time attendee. Did I say big? Indeed it is with some 900+ exhibitors [...]
