Disappointed.

re: Disappointed.

Dan — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:46:32 GMT

While the healthcare blog is an interesting idea - i sometimes question where they put their focus. Google's announcement? does it really matter what he says? HealthValult is picking up institutional clients which is all that matters. I had the opportunity to sit at the table with some google people @ the Health 2.0 conference in SFO last year. (They all were about 12) - they were there to listen to their old fearless leader (Adam Bosworth) and his new thing @ Keas... I got done listening to Bosworth's speech - nice idea - but hasn't that been done? People tracking their wellness online... just goto a myriad of places (healthplans for example) you can do that in a flash... The problem with HCIT is interoperability as well as a host of PHR issues. People need to focus on making sure that if I code and am in the hospital that they can get my prescription history in as quick as manner as possible.

Holt doesn't focus on these types of things - I also think that some of the vendors presenting aren't focused on Health 2.0 - they are more Web 1.0 meets healthcare + some cool Ajax stuff... but if you're fascinated with google, then you're fascinated with google...

boy this is a ramble.

re: Disappointed.

John@chilmark — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:22:30 GMT

Unlike many others, I was not all that impressed with the latest Google announcement and basically said so in my post on the subject (www.chilmarkresearch.com). As I pointed out there, the functionality that Google was announcing has been a common feature of PHRs for years and though I did not mention HealthVault's functionality in this regard, I am certainly aware of it.

What really frustrates me beyond the over-hype of the golden boys & girls in Mountain View that many fawn over is that this functionality is just so mundane. I mean really, all they did was port over the Google Docs sharing function to Google Health. Is this really worth writing about?

re: Disappointed.

so1oonnet — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:20:52 GMT

whole heartedly agree.. i have seen this pattern since a long time. and it is contributing to a lot of 'ill perception' in the industry. there lies a lot more responsibility than is being shown.

when you have a blog that popular, you have are 'required' to show more responsibility.

i love heathvault as much as i love google health for the simple reasons. we need them.

re: Disappointed.

Xentrax [Vyacheslav Lanovets] — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:45:08 GMT

Yes, it's sooo typical for bloggers and press to ignore what MS does while shouting loudly about small things that happen in Google, Apple and Linux worlds.

I'm from Russia and so for me it looks like MS is "underfinancing" bloggers and journalists ;)

re: Disappointed.

HealthCareDeveloper — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:50:16 GMT

You have a legitimate gripe, Sean. I've been implementing HealthVault for a fairly well-known health care web site (we have 32 hits on Matthew's blog, fwiw). And while we've taken baby steps, as a developer I found it very easy to work with the HealthVault APIs, and the support we've received from Microsoft has been exceptional. You've been a great partner.

As you know only too well, we still have a lot of work to do to around figuring out how to make CDA work for true interoperability -- and that's something we will tackle if and when we integrate Google Health.