Comments on: Google, Microsoft, and Health http://rdn-consulting.com/blog/2007/08/15/google-microsoft-and-health/ Software Development and Biomedical Engineering Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:27:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Bob on Medical Device Software » Blog Archive » The EMR-Medical Devices Mess http://rdn-consulting.com/blog/2007/08/15/google-microsoft-and-health/#comment-123 Bob on Medical Device Software » Blog Archive » The EMR-Medical Devices Mess Sun, 23 Sep 2007 03:58:25 +0000 http://rdn-consulting.com/blog/2007/08/15/google-microsoft-and-health/#comment-123 [...] EMR Connectivity for Medical Devices Is a Mess post is right on target. I’ve also expressed my opinion (”total chaos”) on this, but as you’ll see I’m coming from a different [...] [...] EMR Connectivity for Medical Devices Is a Mess post is right on target. I’ve also expressed my opinion (”total chaos”) on this, but as you’ll see I’m coming from a different [...]

]]> By: Bob on Medical Device Software » Blog Archive » A new model for EMR software: Facebook? http://rdn-consulting.com/blog/2007/08/15/google-microsoft-and-health/#comment-97 Bob on Medical Device Software » Blog Archive » A new model for EMR software: Facebook? Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:37:00 +0000 http://rdn-consulting.com/blog/2007/08/15/google-microsoft-and-health/#comment-97 [...] There’s an article in the October The Atlantic Monthly entitled About Facebook (subscription required) by Michael Hirschorn. His contention is that Facebook is currently the site that “comes closest to fulfilling the promise of social media.” As I read though the description of what that means — the way you qualify friends, the ability to track others and their interaction with others, and the restrictions you can put in place on what others can see about you, the groups you join, etc. — it made me think of the implementation of EMR systems. The primary components that Facebook has tackled are work flow and interoperability (I’ve touched a little on this before). [...] [...] There’s an article in the October The Atlantic Monthly entitled About Facebook (subscription required) by Michael Hirschorn. His contention is that Facebook is currently the site that “comes closest to fulfilling the promise of social media.” As I read though the description of what that means — the way you qualify friends, the ability to track others and their interaction with others, and the restrictions you can put in place on what others can see about you, the groups you join, etc. — it made me think of the implementation of EMR systems. The primary components that Facebook has tackled are work flow and interoperability (I’ve touched a little on this before). [...]

]]> By: Bill Crounse, MD http://rdn-consulting.com/blog/2007/08/15/google-microsoft-and-health/#comment-59 Bill Crounse, MD Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:51:42 +0000 http://rdn-consulting.com/blog/2007/08/15/google-microsoft-and-health/#comment-59 Bob, You wrote "It seems to me that Google and Microsoft are using their proprietary technologies to try to achieve the same goals as NHIN." I would like to draw your readers' attention to two different initiatives that clearly show how we are closely aligned with the goals of NHIN, how we embrace world-class open standards in the healthcare industry, and what we are doing to improve patient safety through the design of a standardized (common) user-interface for clinical systems. See http://blogs.msdn.com/healthblog/archive/2006/11/22/the-connected-health-framework-a-service-oriented-architecture-for-health-it.aspx for information on our vendor agnostic Connected Health Framework and Architectural Design Blueprint. See http://blogs.msdn.com/healthblog/archive/2007/07/13/a-common-user-interface-to-clinical-systems-making-it-real.aspx for information about our work with the National Health Service on the design of a common user interface. Bill Crounse, MD Worldwide Health Director Microsoft Bob,

You wrote “It seems to me that Google and Microsoft are using their proprietary technologies to try to achieve the same goals as NHIN.”

I would like to draw your readers’ attention to two different initiatives that clearly show how we are closely aligned with the goals of NHIN, how we embrace world-class open standards in the healthcare industry, and what we are doing to improve patient safety through the design of a standardized (common) user-interface for clinical systems.

See http://blogs.msdn.com/healthblog/archive/2006/11/22/the-connected-health-framework-a-service-oriented-architecture-for-health-it.aspx for information on our vendor agnostic Connected Health Framework and Architectural Design Blueprint.

See http://blogs.msdn.com/healthblog/archive/2007/07/13/a-common-user-interface-to-clinical-systems-making-it-real.aspx for information about our work with the National Health Service on the design of a common user interface.

Bill Crounse, MD
Worldwide Health Director
Microsoft

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