Google has launched some new features for Google Health that could potentially save lives in times of personal crisis. For one, they've included the option for sharing Google Health profiles. This means if you keep your profile up to date with any medication and medical history, you can share it wit...

For those who have trusted Google enough with their health records and started using  Google Health, here’s a new feature that you would certainly find useful - Google Health’s “Share Your Profile” feature.  This new feature will let you easily share your personal health re...

Two seemingly unrelated items: Today Hitwise reported on how Google Maps is catching up on Mapquest, which once was the king of online mapping.   Perhaps more important than just the numbers is the source of traffic:  61% of Google Maps traffic comes from links placed in organic Google Sea...

It’s not hard to find critics of online health info. There seems to be a belief that the Internet has turned us into cyberchondriacs, obsessively Googling “sore knee” or “headache in morning” to figure out which life-alterning ailment we have just developed. But is c...

Think of this as Volume 11, Number 47 of A-Clue.com, the online newsletter I've written since 1997. Enjoy. In looking at health care reform I am reminded of an old New Yorker cartoon by Stanley Harris (right). A scientist stands before a blackboard filled with equations, but with a giant gap in the ...

I spent three days last week at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Spring Congress. I was there to present lessons learned from Michigan's $3.2M NIH Roadmap contract funded under the 2003 "Re-Engineering the Clinical Research Enterprise" Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) in ...

A week or so ago on the eWeek site, John Pallatto posted an article entitled Weighing the Pros and Cons of Online Medical Records. He comes out in favor of keeping the records in the hospitals and clinics, where (in his opinion) they belong. I believe he's tilting at windmills here. My question is w...

Recently Google has launched an new web service known as Google Health. From their entry in Google blog, Marissa Mayer outlines what the service is about: "Google Health aims to solve an urgent need that dovetails with our overall mission of organizing patient information and making it accessib...

Call me old-fashioned (I am 26 after all; that's 62 in technology years) but I don't like the idea of putting my personal health records online. Google Health has just launched in an attempt to rival Microsoft's Revolution Health. GH's......

Google har nu åbenbart sat sit publikum over for at skulle bekende troværdighed: For at par dage siden lancerede Google Health. Det er kun for indehavere af en Google-konto, og kun for indbyggere i USA over 18 år.Andre kan også kigge med, men af betingelserne fremgår klart at det kun er for at ...