Fwd: Google lança agora o Google Health :: (Orkut da saúde?)

[Cassio Melo]

Ao que parece o Google quer estimular a interação médico-paciente, ser um backup de informações médicas dos usuários e fazer todo o acompanhamento de sua rotina de exercícios. (E promete não colocar anúncios).

fonte: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/19/google-health-a-quick-peek/

e http://www.google.com/health

Texto:

Now that Google Health has finally launched, I took a quick peek at it while Mark was taking notes at today's Google Factory Tour presentation. It's been a long time coming, but at first glance it looks like it will be a strong competitor to existing personal health sites such as Microsoft's HealthVault (which launched last October), Revolution Health, or Aetna's SmartSource (via a partnership with Healthline).

The big competition here is between Google Health and Microsoft's HealthVault. (Revolution Health is more of an information portal at this point, and who is going to trust their health insurance company?). Whereas HealthVault's strengths seem to lie in tying together different health information silos on the back end, Google Health is focusing more initially on the consumer side. It is trying to do an end-run around the health establishment by trying to get consumers to manually load their own medical information into their profiles. HealthVault allows this as well, but seems to have stronger partnerships with back-end health data providers. Google will no doubt tackle the existing health data silos as it proceeds. It really has no choice if it wants to organize the world's health information.

--
Cassio Melo
www.cin.ufpe.br/~cam2
+55 81 9134 1950