Google’s Health URL
Adam Bosworth’s excellent keynote and post in the Google blog are yet another call for portable, consumer-controlled health records. His speech refers to current health IT as a “travesty” and is refreshingly unique in its positive tone relative to the emergence of portability standards.
Bosworth’s talk may mark the tipping point where market forces proxied by employers (Dossia) and health plans (AHIP/BCBSA) begin to solve the interoperability problem with or without the help of the hospital IT vendors.
How long will it be before consumers routinely exercise their HIPAA right (see Access, p.12)to a copy of their health records and begin to favor clinicians that are willing and able to keep their Health URL clear, concise and current?
Adrian
Friday, December 15, 2006