Google VP: “Health Care Information Matters”
Excerpt of post from the official Google Blog by Adam Bosworth, Google’s VP of Engineering:
If patients understand their diseases better — the symptoms, the treatments, the drugs, and the side effects, they are likely to get better and quicker care — before, during, and after treatment. We have already launched some improvements to web search that help patients more easily find the health information they are looking for. Using the Google Co-op platform, Google and the health community have labeled sites and pages across the web making it easier for users to refine their health queries and locate the medical information they need.
Meh.
I’m looking forward to seeing what Dean Giustini has to say on this post.
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March 30th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
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April 24th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
[...] The Wall Street Journal Health blog mentions that Google VP Adam Bosworth (whose interest in health information I’ve previously posted about here, here and here) spoke today at the World Health Care Congress in Washington D.C. Bosworth…said patients should have online access to all of the electronic health information that exists about them, whether it’s contained in doctors’ files, billing databases or prescription record. [...]