E-Patient Discovers Significant Flaws in System, Spin Doctors Get to Work
It is absolutely amazing to watch the unfolding saga the moment a real patient enters real data into Google Health from his hospital’s medical records. The way the marketing folks tell us, this is a seamless exercise that gets you up and running on personal health records (PHRs) like Google Health instantly.
The reality, as recounted here first on April 1 by our own e-Patient Dave, shows otherwise. The emperor has no clothes, and it apparently took a single real patient to try it out to show how such a seemingly simple idea — pulling in medical data from your medical records to help you track your health — is really far more complex than even Google realized.
But the fun really started watching the media coverage unfold once The Boston Globe published this article about e-Patient Dave’s experience with Google Health and his attempt to import data from his hospital’s electronic medical record.
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