eGK und Telematik-Infrastruktur – diese Worte bringen derzeit viele Mediziner in Rage und auch die Öffentlichkeit ist nach dem Hickhack um Kosten/Nutzenanalysen doch arg verunsichert. Dass es sich lohnen kann, dafür sprechen die neuesten Gedanken, die sich Google-Vizepräsident Adam Boswell in seinem Blog macht. Neben einem Portal mit Gesundheitsinformationen denkt die Firma auch über Patienteninformationen nach:

Patients also need to be able to better coordinate and manage their own health information. We believe that patients should control and own their own health information, and should be able to do so easily. Today it is much too difficult to get access to one’s health records, for example, because of the substantial administrative obstacles people have to go through and the many places they have to go to collect it all. Compare this to financial information, which is much more available from the various institutions that help manage your financial „health.“ We believe our industry should help solve this problem.

As the Internet increasingly helps link communities of people, we also think there is an opportunity to connect people with similar health interests, concerns and problems. Today, people too often don’t know that others like them even exist, let alone how to find them. The industry should help there, too.

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