A pilot with the Cleveland Clinic for health information access: "Cleveland is just the first of many healthcare providers that will securely send medical records and information via Google APIs at your request. We've been hard at work collaborating with a number of insurance plans, medical groups, pharmacies and hospitals. While this pilot is open initially to just a few thousand patients, I see it as an important first step to show how Google can help users get access to their medical records and take charge of their health information."
Friday, February 22, 2008
Offline Enable Content in Minutes
Ajaxian is carrying an article on Gears PubTools: Offline Enable Content in Minutes
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Life as a Healthcare CIO: Rapid Application Development with Facebook
John Halamka, one of the few really distinguished healthcare CIOs, is writing about Rapid Application Development with Facebook. Its worth exploring the ways in which health professionals could be empowered through some of the emerging enterprise 2.0 approaches. At the moment Salesforce platform seems better placed than Facebook to meet the challenges of health informatics.
Bandwidth on Demand
Harvard Technology Review - Bandwidth on Demand describes some of the innovations in the Internet2 programme
The end of Web Idealism? - the top down Web
Kevin Kelly: "I know it is heresy, but it might be that the Wikipedia model is not good for very much more than writing universal encyclopedias. Other wiki projects to construct textbooks, species listings, and a search engine have not succeeded -- yet. Perhaps the article length is fortuitously the exactly right length for the smart mob, and maybe a book is exactly the wrong length. We'll see."
Mashup for Printing Public Domain Books
Programmable Web is reporting a new mashup for Printing Public Domain Books
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Microsoft and Yahoo again
Philip Greenspun: "The interesting question is why a company that claims to know how to program would pay anything for Yahoo, much less a P/E ratio of more than 60.
Google unseated Yahoo at a cost of about $20 million in financing, simply by being effective software developers and tasteful interface designers. We can infer from this offer that Microsoft expects its own programmers to be only 1/2000th as effective, dollar for dollar, as Google’s. In comparing Vista to XP and dividing by the amount of coding effort that went into Vista, it would be tough to argue with this conclusion."
Saturday, February 09, 2008
Semantic look-up in the New York Times
The NYT has a lookup feature provided by ask.com - just double click on a word and an explanation pops up. It didn't try to disambiguate the word Washington, going straight to an article on Booker T Washington, whom Washingto is not named after.
A complete restructuring of NYT in RDF might solve this (someone recently proposed re-working the UK mapping system to get lorries to avoid a particular village near Bristol). But then so does a right click powered (I'm using a Firefox extension) search of Google which takes me pretty directly to a Wikipedia article.
Growing Pains of Universal Coverage - New York Times
An opinion piece in today's New York Times - Growing Pains of Universal Coverage - New York Times
- highlights the difficulties of bringing health care coverage to 40m Americans.
Thursday, February 07, 2008
The nightmare is coming - Microsoft kicks around ideas for future of Web advertising
The online advertising market is now too prominent for even a software giant like Microsoft to avoid. One way to challenge Google's dominance is to enable advertising in places where Google doesn't reach - into the heart of web content. That's where Microsoft is heading and no doubt others (and no doubt Google too). At the moment RSS is a good way to suck the juice from a website, but that won't last forever. Maybe there will need to be a service which strips advertising from RSS.
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
HL7 and Radiology Workflow
Radiology Workflow automated but see the earlier entry about what workslow looses.
Creating value on top of free
Kevin Kelly: Better than Free suggests some ways in which publishers and authors could make money whilst giving content away.
It's an interesting article, and has some parallels with the idea of bands giving away what can be copied (songs) while charging for what can't be (gigs).
Kelly's argument has some bearing on the issue of open access to Cochrane Library. The Cochrane business model of selling content runs counter to its strategic aim of ensuring that every clinical decision is informed by best evidence. Worse though, the 'make our dough from publishing' approach actually gets in the way of more creative and sustainable approaches to income generation. When we were directors of the National Knowledge Service, my co-director and I wrote to Wiley to ask what value they added to the investment on many tens of milions of pounds made by the Department of Health in the production of Cochrane Reviews. The reply implied that the question was impertinent, that it was not really understood, but that we should rest assured that value was being added. It will be as hard for publishers as it is for the music industry to stop betting against the Internet.
Tagging and RDF
This paper - Lawrence & Schraefel (pdf Object) takes a middle path between free tagging and RDF.
More Consequences of IT: The Disappearance of Radiology Rounds
Bob Wachter, no luddite he, reflects on the losses entailed when digital radiology takes hold: More Consequences of IT: The Disappearance of Radiology Rounds.
As they struggle to identify processes, existing clinical systems seek to de-personalise workflows. This may be an opportunity for the Health 2.0 approach to re-introduce the social into medicine.
Monday, February 04, 2008
Microsoft, Yahoo! and the Effect on OpenID - ReadWriteWeb
There's a lot of logic to this , but anything could happen
Concerns about Microhoo Yasoft
A couple of emerging concerns about the proposed Yahoo incorporation into Microsoft:
- from Google: "So Microsoft's hostile bid for Yahoo! raises troubling questions. This is about more than simply a financial transaction, one company taking over another. It's about preserving the underlying principles of the Internet: openness and innovation." fair comment even allowing for its source. Google has benefitted hugely from from the Web's openness, along with a good sense of timing and some brilliant technical insights. It's also put quite a lot back (Has Google benefited more from the web's openness than the Web benefitted from Google's largesse - discuss?)
from Emily Bell: no good ever came from the second and third players teaming up to beat the number one.
Saturday, February 02, 2008
Yahoo and Microsoft
It's very hard to see what real value there is in the proposed acquisition of Yahoo by Microsoft. But it will make news. Much the same could be said about Microsoft's acquisition of FAST. To a sceptic it confirms that that:
- Microsoft is sitting on a pile of cash
- live.com and MSN aren't haveing enough success
- Google continues to shape the market
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