Comments on: What happens when Google Wave hits Google Health?

By: Catching a Google Wave | Andy Pulman Edublog

Catching a Google Wave | Andy Pulman Edublog — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:58:19 +0000

[...] Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration which could have great potential in health improvement. [...]

By: Brian Dolan

Brian Dolan — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:01:43 +0000

Thanks for the note, Ash. I linked to your video demo in an article today: http://mobihealthnews.com/4873/shorts-google-wave-itriage-diabetech/

By: Ash

Ash — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:47:37 +0000

I have been working on a project that combines Google Health ever since Google Wave launched. I produced a simple video @ http://www.ylabz.com. The product has lots of features still in stealth mode.

By: Grand Rounds Vol. 5, No. 37: The June Is Bustin’ Out All Over Edition | HIPAA Compliance News

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:57:42 +0000

[...] platforms that may enable folks to reach this holy grail. Brian Dolan at mobihealthnews says that Google Wave, an open-source tool for communication and collaboration, looks like a killer tool for enabling Google Health to do more in terms of provider-provider and [...]

By: Grand Rounds Vol. 5, No. 37: The June Is Bustin’ Out All Over Edition | HIPAA Compliance News

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:41:01 +0000

[...] that may enable folks to reach this holy grail. Brian Dolan at mobilehealthnews says that Google Wave, an open-source tool for communication and collaboration, looks like a killer tool for enabling Google Health to do more in terms of provider-provider and [...]

By: Google Wave in Science and Medicine « ScienceRoll

Google Wave in Science and Medicine « ScienceRoll — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:22:22 +0000

[...] What happens when Google Wave hits Google Health? Google Health already has an API available for developers. Google Wave could bring real-time collaboration between physicians and patients to the Google Health platform. Imagine being able to easily insert comments into every line of information in your medical health records. Google Wave could make it much easier for physicians to upload information into Google Health, too. If nothing else, the new application looks to greatly improve the user experience for Google Health users, should developers, whether inside the Googleplex or one of those 4,900 external developers with new Google Wave accounts, take advantage of the opportunity to make Google Health more collaborative. [...]

By: inchoate but earnest

inchoate but earnest — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:20:48 +0000

unfortunately for Digidocsbag, it doesn’t matter if “doctors aren’t going to allow it” b/c people are going to do it – probably badly/ineffectually at first, but they will take charge of their health info, and the relationships of others to that info. The challenge for docs is how to respond effectively to the change.

By: DigitalDoctorsBag

DigitalDoctorsBag — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:33:32 +0000

Re: Google Health already has an API available for developers. Google Wave could bring real-time collaboration between physicians and patients to the Google Health platform.

Q: You think your doctor is going to wait for you to tweet about a wave that is dedicated to your health and then quickly respond ? Can you call your doctor and get a reply more than 90% of the time in 5 minutes ? No. Doctors don’t have the time for this.

The benefits of “Google Waves” for doctor patient communication is NOT the real time aspect of it .. but the asynchronous aspects of it. It is only marginally better than another asynchronous tool : email. Hands up patients whom often email their providers ?

Re: Imagine being able to easily insert comments into every line of information in your medical health records.

Doctors aren’t going to allow it. For practical and medico-legal reasons. Believe me, patient’s microblogging in their spare time about their random problems won’t improve their health.

By: Brian Dolan

Brian Dolan — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:04:13 +0000

Hi Jim,

While it probably won’t have any healthcare ramifications, my guess on the YouTube monetization front is that Google will finally leverage its acquisition of Neven Vision — the smart image/video recognition company – and sell ads related to the content Neven’s tech detects within the videos. Google bought Neven a few months before it bought YouTube. Maybe they had a monetization path even before they bought YT?

Fun fact: One of the founders of Neven became CEO of a company formed from the assets Google didn’t buy. That company is called iVisit and it has a really interesting “seeing eye” service for the visually impaired that uses image recognition and camera phones. We wrote an article about iVisit called Training Seeing Eye Phones…

http://mobihealthnews.com/1216/training_seeing_eye_mobile_phones/

The family tree of tech innovations is one big one, I tell you.

By: Jim Lefevere

Jim Lefevere — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:56:48 +0000

Good post Brian interesting connection with the Wave and the Google Health implications. It will be interesting to see if it comes to fruition.

With Google being so ad driven, I wonder how they plan to monetize around this. They have struggled with getting a return on YouTube and as ad dollars get tighter I wonder there is a grand plan or if they pull the plug on some things.

There is a good article in Fortune about their new CFO a few weeks ago.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/17/technology/lashinsky_google.fortune/index.htm

check out http://www.jlefevere.com for additional commentary.