Month: February 2008
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Google Health: the beginning or the end of ehealth as we know it?
Google announced the launch of a pilot project in collaboration with the Cleveland Clinic to provide select patients access to their medical record using the Google health platform. According to the Associated Press, Google will: begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that’s likely to…
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A new architecture for EHRs?
Amidst the efforts to develop the elusive electronic health record (EHR) and to modernise our health care systems are many technical challenges that need to be addressed. One significant challenge is integrating information from a variety of difference sources (i.e., lab systems, pharmacy systems, scheduling systems, directories, nursing and physician notes, etc) and to present…