Google EMR, Healthcare Innovation, and EMR Social Media

We have a wide range of tweets today, but so many of them offer interesting insights and discussion points. I think you’ll agree.


I think the reply to the original tweet is a great response. I honestly can’t imagine Google getting back into the healthcare game through an EMR. They might do something with discovery of health information. They might do something cool with their image recognition technology and healthcare, but they’re not going to build an EMR. EMR is enterprise software, and Google won’t be going there.


I’m a huge supporter of API’s and the innovation they can create. I just don’t see many healthcare IT vendors ready to open up their systems like that. This is possibly because there’s too much money to be made by selling their product as is. Thanks EHR Incentive money.


It’s pretty provocative to consider, but the simple answer is yes it will. Although, it might be the HIE more than the EMR. I guess we’ll see how that plays out. However, I think control of when and where your information is shared will be a feature. Of course, most people won’t ever use that feature. They’ll just leave the default settings.

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John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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