Comments on: Google Health http://timworstall.com/2008/05/21/google-health/ It is all obvious or trivial except... Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:45:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bigdai http://timworstall.com/2008/05/21/google-health/comment-page-1/#comment-12938 Bigdai Fri, 23 May 2008 13:11:12 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/05/21/google-health/#comment-12938 I am surprised no one else (blogosphere of MSM) has picked up on this. It does seem that Google has provided in no time at all and at no cost (yet) to the user the centralised service that the NHS seeks. I guess the complication for the NHS is that access control remains with supplier rather than the Google model were it remains with the customer. Hopefully someone at the Google zeitgeist conference had the wit to speak to the PM about this last week. Market solution - 1 Central Planning - nil I am surprised no one else (blogosphere of MSM) has picked up on this.
It does seem that Google has provided in no time at all and at no cost (yet) to the user the centralised service that the NHS seeks. I guess the complication for the NHS is that access control remains with supplier rather than the Google model were it remains with the customer. Hopefully someone at the Google zeitgeist conference had the wit to speak to the PM about this last week.
Market solution – 1
Central Planning – nil

]]> By: Tim Almond http://timworstall.com/2008/05/21/google-health/comment-page-1/#comment-12825 Tim Almond Wed, 21 May 2008 17:47:33 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/05/21/google-health/#comment-12825 "Any software modification request whatsoever is the cashcow of off-the-shelf products." You shouldn't be making many changes to a package. If you are, you picked the wrong one. “Any software modification request whatsoever is the cashcow of off-the-shelf products.”

You shouldn’t be making many changes to a package. If you are, you picked the wrong one.

]]> By: Kay Tie http://timworstall.com/2008/05/21/google-health/comment-page-1/#comment-12806 Kay Tie Wed, 21 May 2008 13:55:17 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/05/21/google-health/#comment-12806 "Any software modification request whatsoever is the cashcow of off-the-shelf products." Fret not. The Google APIs will allow the usual gravy train of Government IT to continue unhindered: lots of scope for getting contracts for £100m to use the APIs in projects that could be done by the MySociety people for £50. “Any software modification request whatsoever is the cashcow of off-the-shelf products.”

Fret not. The Google APIs will allow the usual gravy train of Government IT to continue unhindered: lots of scope for getting contracts for £100m to use the APIs in projects that could be done by the MySociety people for £50.

]]> By: Kit http://timworstall.com/2008/05/21/google-health/comment-page-1/#comment-12795 Kit Wed, 21 May 2008 13:31:44 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/05/21/google-health/#comment-12795 john b, I wish I could change my government provided health care as easily as insurer provide health care. john b,

I wish I could change my government provided health care as easily as insurer provide health care.

]]> By: Ed http://timworstall.com/2008/05/21/google-health/comment-page-1/#comment-12793 Ed Wed, 21 May 2008 13:28:45 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/05/21/google-health/#comment-12793 I'm not sure I like the idea that Google Health is free. If I am not paying them for online access to my medical details, who is? Given that they are not covered by HIPAA, the protections (for US customers) are limited. http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/daily-brief/2008/05/19/google-health-are-you-feeling-lucky I’m not sure I like the idea that Google Health is free. If I am not paying them for online access to my medical details, who is? Given that they are not covered by HIPAA, the protections (for US customers) are limited.

http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/daily-brief/2008/05/19/google-health-are-you-feeling-lucky

]]> By: john b http://timworstall.com/2008/05/21/google-health/comment-page-1/#comment-12786 john b Wed, 21 May 2008 12:52:53 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/05/21/google-health/#comment-12786 "What is even better is that YOU choose who has access to YOUR health records" ...unless your healthcare is provided by insurance, like nearly all Americans who aren't insanely rich, in which case YOUR INSURER chooses who has access to YOUR health records, through the simple means of only funding doctors, hospitals and procedures they approve of... “What is even better is that YOU choose who has access to YOUR health records”

…unless your healthcare is provided by insurance, like nearly all Americans who aren’t insanely rich, in which case YOUR INSURER chooses who has access to YOUR health records, through the simple means of only funding doctors, hospitals and procedures they approve of…

]]> By: Andrew Paterson http://timworstall.com/2008/05/21/google-health/comment-page-1/#comment-12784 Andrew Paterson Wed, 21 May 2008 12:43:20 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/05/21/google-health/#comment-12784 Working in the healthcare IT industry, unless Google Health matches exactly what the NHS might need, it would be far from free. Any software modification request whatsoever is the cashcow of off-the-shelf products. Working in the healthcare IT industry, unless Google Health matches exactly what the NHS might need, it would be far from free. Any software modification request whatsoever is the cashcow of off-the-shelf products.

]]> By: Google Health | OneHourAhead http://timworstall.com/2008/05/21/google-health/comment-page-1/#comment-12783 Google Health | OneHourAhead Wed, 21 May 2008 12:33:43 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/05/21/google-health/#comment-12783 [...] Tim Worstall, I find that Google launched Google Health earlier this [...] [...] Tim Worstall, I find that Google launched Google Health earlier this [...]

]]> By: Kit http://timworstall.com/2008/05/21/google-health/comment-page-1/#comment-12778 Kit Wed, 21 May 2008 10:51:33 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/05/21/google-health/#comment-12778 And if you don't like the Google system you can always switch to Microsoft or any number of competing applications. What is even better is that YOU choose who has access to YOUR health records. And if you don’t like the Google system you can always switch to Microsoft or any number of competing applications. What is even better is that YOU choose who has access to YOUR health records.

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