Google wants to do Health Care Analytics using medical records

[Victorious Secret]

 

Some places, like Canada, are already moving towards having EMR (electronic medical records); heck, my entire office can access everything about a patient using a simple (but heavily secured) application. 

 

Analytics in healthcare are a PITA and they aren't cheap. Google could leverage all the of the universes servers to crank out useful data for hospitals and for research institutions on a scale that no one else could match. I'm okay with this, so long as records get anonymized and Google ONLY gets the raw data, thats how we do it now but that data alone is invaluable for figuring things out and exploring new avenues of research. anything that can make doing that research and crunching that data easier and more accessible is alright by me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Google might be getting into the analytics of electronic medical records (“EMR” or “EHR” for electronic health records). Google’s Co-CEO, Larry Page, was interviewed during the company’s Google I/O event. He noted that health care data is not collected or collected in a meaningful way. This is due to concerns of privacy and regulations. He pondered what impact access to health care data would have on society. He figured Google could save 100,000 lives in the next year if it could develop health care data analytics.

In making EMRs more accessible for data analytics, hospitals and health care professionals would first need to move away from storing information on paper. This move would have a high initial cost, but the benefit to society as a whole would improve. It would be possible to better understand disease pathology, health care trends, and help build correlations among many traits with health issues. Patterns among genetics, environment, and demographics might be found in relation to diseases.

 

Unlike in the United States, development for EMR in Canada is progressing.  Since 2001, the Government of Canada funded a not-for-profit corporation called Canada Health Infoway. Its charge to facilitate health care transformation includes developing health information standards, providing tools and services for technology vendors, and working with the clinical community to enhance its value.

 

 

 

 

http://www.itworldcanada.com/blog/is-google-eyeing-big-data-analytics-in-electronic-medical-records/95178

 

 

 

[SSOB]

So basically they watch apple keynotes too, a bit copied from ''Health'' Nontheless a great move from google and apple, these kinds of tech innovations i can only encourage.

[wpirobotbuilder]

This is an area where data mining could be incredibly helpful in terms of finding predictors of medical condition.

 

Unfortunately it's also going to be a target for debates about privacy.

[Victorious Secret]

This is an area where data mining could be incredibly helpful in terms of finding predictors of medical condition.

 

Unfortunately it's also going to be a target for debates about privacy.

 

True. Its not different from what we put up with when we give off our data to other research groups or pharma firms. 

 

Largely, its a tough shit scenario. When you enroll in studies or even become a patient, your data is up for grabs from the word go. The best you can expect is to have your name and address stripped from the patient charts when they get handed over, you aren't really owed anything beyond that. 

 

There are strict guidelines in place to control who gets access and how much they can look it and all that fun stuff, but any group worth their weight in funding can make the right requests and ethical approvals to further disseminate the data however they wish and to whomever they wish.