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Google Health gets boost from IBM software
News Google has signed on to a new software product created by IBM with help from the Continua Health Alliance, an organisation that promotes interoperability of medical devices. The software will take data from a patient's personal health-monitoring...
[February 5, 2009, 8:48]
Google Health beta test launched
News Google on Monday launched a beta test of its Google Health service for archiving medical records and finding medical services. The US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act does not govern much of what Google itself does and, after...
[May 20, 2008, 11:45]
What if Google Health Crashes?
Talkback From the graphic on this piece and the headline I thought you might extrapolate into the implications for the Conservatives' recent Electronic Medical Record plan which looks like it could be based around Google Health or Microsoft's Health Vault...
[September 2, 2009, 18:01]
The Tangled Web of Google Health - Online Medical Records Could Change Healthcare Receivables Strategies
White Papers Several prominent web cornerstone firms, like Google and Microsoft, are pushing a system that would allow consumers' access to Personal Health Records. If anyone has picked up a newspaper - or more likely read one online - in the last month, he or...
[May 15, 2008, 1:01]
The privacy side effects of Google Health
News Webware.com's Rafe Needleman and CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi discuss the recent launch of a beta test of Google Health, a US service that allows users to compile their medical records online. The offering may sound good in theory, but privacy and...
[May 21, 2008, 14:42]
Google Health to host patient e-records
Talkback Personally I would have no qualms about having my medical record stored on GOOGLE servers. It would nice to have them all in one place and which I could have access.
[February 29, 2008, 13:14]
Google hires another brilliant Larry
News Search giant Google has hired an award-winning expert in health and development to oversee the charitable arm of its business, which Google's founders claim could one day have a greater impact on the world than the main company.
[February 22, 2006, 15:45]
Google.org: Tech industry can help save the world
News Google.org also uses the Google Maps and News technology in its HealthMap system, to track outbreaks of diseases and help health organisations target them before they turn into epidemics. Brilliant has significant experience of combating diseases...
[November 7, 2008, 8:16]
Tories pledge to 'dismantle' NPfIT
News In the NHS IT review, commissioned by Conservative shadow health minister Stephen O'Brien, the report's authors compared Microsoft's HealthVault with Google Health for potential use in the UK health system.
[August 11, 2009, 14:08]
Obama taps OpenID for government websites
News The pilot programmes are being launched by the Center for Information Technology, National Institutes of Health and the US Department of Health and Human Services. Yahoo, Google and other top technology companies have signed up to an effort to...
[September 10, 2009, 12:50]
Leading Teaching Hospital Improves Search Results, Streamlines IT Tasks With the Google Search Appliance
White Papers The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada's leading addiction and mental health teaching hospital. Its mission is to improve the lives of those affected by addiction and mental health problems and promote the health of people in...
[June 23, 2009, 1:19]
eHealthinsurance Improved Site Usability and Reduced Abandonment Rates With Google Site Search
White Papers Licensed to market and sell health insurance in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, eHealthinsurance has developed partnerships with more than 175 health insurance companies and offers more than 10,000 health insurance products online.
[June 23, 2009, 1:19]
Google accused of bio-piracy
News Dr Brilliant is a physician, epidemiologist and a specialist in international health. He played a key role in the World Health Search giant Google has been accused of being the "biggest threat to genetic privacy" for its alleged plan to create a...
[March 29, 2006, 18:15]
Microsoft plans web software push
News Also in Parliament, the question of whether Wi-Fi is a danger to public health will be aired. Last year, many ZDNet UK readers took issue with claims that Wi-Fi was damaging people's health, so we'll be at Parliament to report on Carlo's speech on...
[February 19, 2007, 15:16]
Google.org awards disease-prevention grants
News Columbia University International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) received a $900,000 multi-year grant to improve the use of forecasts, rainfall data and other climate information in East Africa, and link weather and climate...
[October 22, 2008, 12:18]
Intel switches attention to physical world
News The data obtained from the glove could let remote health care workers anticipate needs or get warning of sudden problems. Some of the proactive efforts revolve around improving current networks and computers, while others seek to use computing in...
[May 6, 2004, 9:00]
Google tops brand-popularity poll
News Google was named as the number-one place to work in 2007 for offering staff benefits including free meals, a swimming spa and doctors available onsite for free health checkups, according to a top 100 poll in Fortune magazine.
[January 11, 2007, 8:57]
Microsoft and NHS to design healthcare software
News There, efforts centre around the notion of a personal health record. In February, the company bought Medstory, a health-based search company with tools that were recently integrated into the search feature on MSN's health and fitness page.
[September 10, 2007, 8:51]
Google aims to redefine philanthropy
News For instance, many corporations give to… health and human services but not many concentrate on prevention. Even in philanthropy, Google follows its own rules. With its funding of renewable energy and early-warning systems for drought and infectious...
[January 18, 2008, 8:44]
Google warns of spiralling energy costs
News The possibility of computer equipment power consumption spiralling out of control could have serious consequences for the overall affordability of computing, not to mention the overall health of the planet.
[December 9, 2005, 11:35]
