Feeling Sick? Google Begins Asking Some Searchers Who Look For Illness-Related Terms
May 13, 2009 at 6:04pm ET by Danny Sullivan
Why exactly are you searching for "headache" or "ear infection" at Google? Do you have one of these illnesses or are you researching them? Google wants to know, and will find out by asking a small number of people directly within the search results, beginning today.
It's part of a process that Google hopes will allow them to improve health-related search results plus perhaps build more trending tools like Google Flu.
"We'd like to do a better job of accurately estimating current levels of flu and extend that to other areas, and to do that, we need to understand better what people [...]
Filed in: Features: General, Google: Health, Google: User Interface, Google: Web Search, Top News
Searching For Healthcare Solutions: Electronic Health Records Initiative Faces Significant Obstacles
Mar 26, 2009 at 10:01am ET by Greg Sterling
When the long rumored Google Health was announced in early 2008, it appeared to be a very ambitious initiative that had a mountain to climb. That mountain was participation: getting individuals, doctors and hospitals to digitize their records. Then there are the myriad privacy and data security issues.
But Google isn't the only one in the electronic health records and "health search" game. So is Microsoft. There are scores of others in the segment, as well as billions spent annually in advertising. Despite the money and involvement of companies like Microsoft and Google, digitizing the nati [...]
Filed in: Google: Health, Microsoft: General, Microsoft: Other
Google Health Makes It Easier To Share Medical Records
Mar 4, 2009 at 11:03pm ET by Matt McGee
Google Health has taken a step forward in utility with the launch today of two new tools to help users share their medical information with trusted friends, family members, or medical providers.
First, "Share This Profile" is an email-based tool that lets you give someone else online access to a Google Health profile. Privacy and security are obvious concerns here, and Google says these safeguards are in place:
the access link you send will only work in connection with the email address of the person you send it to; your profile can't be accessed if the link is forwarded to someone els [...]
Filed in: Google: Health
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