Google Portal for Medical Information

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January 23, 2006

Google Portal for Medical Information

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Google should make a Medical Information Portal. I came across a fabolous idea that was discussed at Health IT World. I couldn’t think of a better application for Google technologies. Ok, so I’m still sitting in an idealistic world that evaluates decisions based on merit and not just $$. Either way, I think that having a medical portal on google would be fantastic. You could tie your EMR directly to the medical portal to get the latest and greatest medical information that you could give to your patient. Then, let’s take it one step further. Your EHR could be tied to the google search which would allow patients to see more information without wasting the doctors time. Doctors will probably hate this idea, but in the end patients are and will use this feature if google was to come out with it.

I think the best detail from the article besides the idea is that if it were something easy to accomplish then it would have been done 2 years ago.

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One response to "Google Portal for Medical Information"

# Dave Foster commented on January 26th, 2006:
The problem with casting a google search over the web is that the results are dangerously wrong. A provider cannot trust that the results are good and for good reason. Some health content for consummers on the web is not medically reviewed and it gets out of date quickly. More about this here .

Healthwise clients are implementing EMRs integrated with the consummer facing Healthwise Knowledgebase and Healthwise Patient instructions so that clinicians can print at the point of care or link to from online EHR’s.