Comments on: Google vs. Microsoft in healthcare records http://venturebeat.com/2007/08/14/google-vs-microsoft-in-healthcare-records/ News About Tech, Money and Innovation Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:36:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: David P. Hamilton http://venturebeat.com/2007/08/14/google-vs-microsoft-in-healthcare-records/comment-page-1/#comment-449990 David P. Hamilton Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:16:47 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/08/14/google-vs-microsoft-in-healthcare-records/#comment-449990 EMR guy, you raise an excellent point. I could imagine this playing out in a few different ways. If lots of people start putting their information into Google Health and then insisting that their doctors find ways to access it, that could conceivably create an incentive for physician practices to digitize. I think that's kind of a big if -- I'm not sure what, exactly, patients are going to value in EMRs if they can't take them to their doctors to begin with, and the privacy concerns still loom pretty large. Meanwhile, as I've said a number of times, any effort to push doctors into the Internet Age needs to grapple with the fact that it's going to cost them more to digitize their practices than they'll save, at least in the short run. It's a nifty catch-22, in fact. EMR guy, you raise an excellent point. I could imagine this playing out in a few different ways. If lots of people start putting their information into Google Health and then insisting that their doctors find ways to access it, that could conceivably create an incentive for physician practices to digitize. I think that’s kind of a big if — I’m not sure what, exactly, patients are going to value in EMRs if they can’t take them to their doctors to begin with, and the privacy concerns still loom pretty large.

Meanwhile, as I’ve said a number of times, any effort to push doctors into the Internet Age needs to grapple with the fact that it’s going to cost them more to digitize their practices than they’ll save, at least in the short run. It’s a nifty catch-22, in fact.

]]> By: Electronic Medical Records Guy http://venturebeat.com/2007/08/14/google-vs-microsoft-in-healthcare-records/comment-page-1/#comment-448926 Electronic Medical Records Guy Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:27:55 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/08/14/google-vs-microsoft-in-healthcare-records/#comment-448926 What good is a Google Personal Health Record (or any other personal health record, for that matter) if the vast majority of physicians are still practicing medicine with paper and a pencil? Should we first focus on helping doctors transition to electronic medical records, and then spend our time helping patients create personal health records? Or do you think millions of personal health records will force physicians to implement an EMR? In the end, any personal health record needs to "talk" to all the electronic medical record systems out there! EMR Software Guy, http://www.electronic-medical-record.blogspot.com What good is a Google Personal Health Record (or any other personal health record, for that matter) if the vast majority of physicians are still practicing medicine with paper and a pencil? Should we first focus on helping doctors transition to electronic medical records, and then spend our time helping patients create personal health records? Or do you think millions of personal health records will force physicians to implement an EMR? In the end, any personal health record needs to “talk” to all the electronic medical record systems out there!

EMR Software Guy,
http://www.electronic-medical-record.blogspot.com

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]]> By: VentureBeat » Review of a preview: Google Health http://venturebeat.com/2007/08/14/google-vs-microsoft-in-healthcare-records/comment-page-1/#comment-433526 VentureBeat » Review of a preview: Google Health Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:30:09 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/08/14/google-vs-microsoft-in-healthcare-records/#comment-433526 [...] sooner does the NYT run a significant piece on health-info efforts at Google and Microsoft than someone decides to leak the “preview” of the site to Google Blogoscoped. (Site [...] [...] sooner does the NYT run a significant piece on health-info efforts at Google and Microsoft than someone decides to leak the “preview” of the site to Google Blogoscoped. (Site [...]

]]> By: VentureBeat » Google Health coming, lets you manage your records online http://venturebeat.com/2007/08/14/google-vs-microsoft-in-healthcare-records/comment-page-1/#comment-431930 VentureBeat » Google Health coming, lets you manage your records online Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:12:26 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/08/14/google-vs-microsoft-in-healthcare-records/#comment-431930 [...] woke up and started pushing their weight around. At VentureBeat LifeSciences, David Hamilton looks at the rivalry between Google and Microsoft, and how the biggest opportunity is in letting people manage their health records [...] [...] woke up and started pushing their weight around. At VentureBeat LifeSciences, David Hamilton looks at the rivalry between Google and Microsoft, and how the biggest opportunity is in letting people manage their health records [...]

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