Google listens
As promised, I have written something about Google‘s reaction to the inaccurate information that got into cancer survivor Dave deBronkart‘s personal health record, as chronicled in the Boston Globe. It’s over on the BNET Healthcare Blog.
Thanks to Enoch Choi for alerting me to the happenings at the Health 2.0 Meets Information Therapy conference, which I was unable to attend.
It’s good that they admitted the problem, but it is not clear that they understand how to fix it. There are approaches, but they need both IT and clinical sophistication to work.see more at : http://healthinfoex.blogspot.com/2009/04/errors-in-google-health.htmlThanks for reporting this story.Ben Littenberg, MD