They touch upon where health information is on their radar. From the Offical Google Blog:
We don’t have any products or services to announce yet and may not for quite some time, but we thought we’d share a bit about the problems we’re interested in helping out on even before we introduce solutions. As we explore these problems and continue to work on them, we hope to share more about our efforts along the way.
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“Dear Google,
Here is my medical information for your disposal.”
Boring, very boring.
Just keep the “scholar” section up to date, and we’ll all be happy.
Dear Google,
Don’t revolutionize this field. Make many small improvements. Healthcare, at least as practiced in the US is too complex for a single solution. Also, it’s too slow to adopt any technology even though doctors buys the latest cool gadgets (and most current MDs can’t use EMRs, ironic)
My tip:
use your excellent, intuitive search skills to
1) Replace medline/ovid/cochrans datases – Scholar needs to be more powerful.
2) Create easy to use EBM alogrithm – everyone now a days is big on evidence based medicine. But why do I need to recreate teh wheel erverytime I want ot know the latest guidelines for Aspirin in secondary Cardiovascular protection, or steroids and septic shock. OVID/Cochranes, all require mutiple steps of search, filter and narrow down results, etc.
3) Create an easy to use ICD/CPT english language search function – if I type aspiration pneumonia, i should get the code that goes with it (not a choice between 12 irrevelant codes labeld by organ systems) – It’s not not my job to really code – that’s why there is this career called coding.
I could make all three but I’m too busy trying to make ends meet in my practice. So google, focus on these 3 things – this will start the google medical revolution. Then make a internet based EMR!!!
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