“My major concern in that post was how the information technologists at Google, even with nearly unlimited access to capital (and therefore to the world’s informatics expertise) badly mismanaged a Personal Health Records (PHR) project through commission of a most fundamental biomedical information science blunder (quite distinct from IT; most IT technologists and MIS personnel really stink at biomedical information science). They tried to map relatively ungranular, imprecise, and often misused billing codes back to enduser-viewable diagnoses, resulting in easily predictable patient panic and mayhem.”
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MedInformaticsMD, Health Care Renewal, 1 May 2009
