Google Health: First Failure of 2012
Robert L. Mitchell, Computerworld
“At the stroke of midnight on New Year’s day, Google Health, the personal health record data aggregation service for consumers, will shut down for good.
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The Death Of Google Health: Whose Fault Is It?
Rachel Z. Arndt, Fast Company
“After more than three years of struggle, the online records service Google Health will cease to exist come January 1.
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PHR and Reluctant Consumers
“Google’s PHR (personal health record) product, Google Health, will cease operations on January 1, 2012. The official Google Blog offers an explanation for the company’s decision to retire their Google Health product: Google’s goal to translate their “successful consumer-centered approach” to the healthcare domain did not have the hoped for impact on a sufficient number of Google users.
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Lessons from Google Health
Richard D. Marks, HIMSS News
“The de-Googlization of digital personal health records – Google’s decision to terminate Google Health and abandon the PHR field – offers two lessons with consequences. First, not everything can be Googlized. Second, building digital health record systems consumers will accept is very difficult.
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In the Wake of Google Health
Tim Patton, Project HealthDesign
“There is wide speculation regarding the reasons for Google Health’s recently reported “failure.” At Project HealthDesign, we’re excited about experiments that probe the potential of personal health applications (PHAs), but we also know some won’t last. Although Google Health was one that didn’t, their experiment still leaves us with many valuable lessons.
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Google gave up on electronic personal health records, but we shouldn’t
Ross Koppel, KevinMD
“Which will improve a person’s health more? Running around the block for 20 minutes or sitting at a computer entering their cholesterol and blood pressure readings?
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Google Health Shutting Down Doesn’t Mean Google Has Abandoned Health
Dean Stephens, Search Engine Watch
“Recently, Google announced that it will close Google Health to new consumers on January 1, 2012 and that the service will be retired a year later. Google Health was much different than Google as a search engine; it required that consumers use their site to upload their personal health data and store this in a personal health record (PHR).
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Electronic medical records after Google Health’s failure
Vineeta Vijayaraghavan and Clayton Christensen, Reuters
“It may seem that the viability of electronic health records looks dismal after the failure of Google Health, yet in integrated health systems around the country they have been implemented and utilized by patients.
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What Killed Google Health? And What Does Its Untimely Demise Mean?
Carey Goldberg, CommonHealth
“Basically, it was a combination of a couple of factors—the stagnant data flow in the health system and some failures in Google’s strategic execution.
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A Better Personal Health Record?
Courtney Humphries, Technology Review
“When Google recently announced it would discontinue Google Health at the end of this year, it left the fate of personal health records (PHRs) hanging. Unlike medical records kept by health-care providers, Google Health offered a single place where people could store, analyze, and share their personal health information. But it was hampered by a fragmented health system that made it difficult to collect medical information, and it relied on the initiative of consumers to gather their own data.
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Google Health: Dead of neglect
Boston Globe
“When a tornado devastated parts of Missouri in May, the paper records at one hospital in the city of Joplin were destroyed; X-rays were found scattered as far as 75 miles away. The disaster underscored the urgent need for switching to electronic health records, which offer lower costs, reduced possibility of medical errors – and obvious security advantages.
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Microsoft announces ‘Direct’ way to move from Google Health to HealthVault
Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“Microsoft has announced that people using the Google Health service – scheduled to close on Jan. 1, 2012 – can transfer personal health information stored in a Google Health profile to a Microsoft HealthVault account using the Direct Project messaging protocols.
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Stepping in Where Google Health Left Off
John Moore, Chilmark Research
“A little over a week ago Google stated that it was putting a stake through the heart of their personal health platform (PHP) Google Health. We at Chilmark had been expecting this for some time, it was just a manner of when it would become official. Thus, we were somewhat taken aback by all the publicity surrounding this final chapter with our own post on the topic receiving well over 40 comments and link-backs (that may be a record – thanks everyone for contributing to the story).
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Google: Rethink Your Mission!
Steve Denning, Forbes
“There is a curious disconnect between Google’s [GOOG] mission (“organize the world’s information”) and what Google actually does to earn a living (“find stuff quickly, easily and elegantly”).
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What Google’s exit means for Microsoft’s HealthVault
Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“If you ask Microsoft Health Group’s Chief Architect and General Manager Sean Nolan what the shuttering of Google Health means for HealthVault, he’ll tell you the “real and simple” answer to that question is “nothing.” Apart from an expected influx of new HealthVault users — those forced to abandon Google Health — Nolan said one change will be getting “used to being out there more or less on our own.” If you are having trouble detecting Microsoft’s tone, I’ll help you out: Triumphant.
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Obligatory Post on Google Health
Margalit Gur-Arie, On Healthcare Technology
“Not that anybody needs another post on the seemingly shattering news of Google Health’s recent entrance into palliative care hospice, but I think we may be missing something.
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Google Health failed because consumers did not see the value of a PHR
Kent Bottles, KevinMD
“At one time I thought Google Health would become the Personal Health Record (PHR) that would allow individual patients to keep track of their medical and daily activity data and apply the WHO definition of health to their own life; I blogged about PHRs because I hoped they would solve the enormous problem of hospital based IT systems not communicating with each other.
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Google Health, code blue. What’s next in PHR space?
Don Fluckinger, SearchHealthIT
“Shame on Google for launching this service in the first place if they weren’t planning on supporting it for the long haul — meaning, until public and private entities settle upon health data standards and the execution of national health information exchange.
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Microsoft Reaps Spoils Of Google Health’s Demise
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Microsoft is set to take the spoils of Google Health’s demise. The former online personal health record rivals are working together behind the scenes to help Google Health users easily migrate their personal e-health record data to Microsoft HealthVault’s personal health record platform.
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How a Broken Medical System Killed Google Health
David Talbot, Technology Review
“At the end of this year, Google Health will flatline. The service couldn’t encourage many people to import or analyze their health data, and experts say its untimely death is, in many ways, an extension of U.S. health-care providers’ failure to share data across institutions, or make it easy for patients to obtain it.
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