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Minute Clinic was listed as a Future Google Health Partner (googleblog). The MA health information exchange pilot was announced on Halamka’s blog. It merits careful reading including the links to brief and informative supporting documents.
How is Minute Clinic like Children’s Hospital of Boston?
- Both Minute Clinic and Children’s are providing health services to consumers.
- Both [...]


Here’s a brief report of HIMSS 08 and the Google Health intro from the perspective of a Web standards junkie and CCR fan. I spent much time in both the Google and Microsoft booths, chatted with a handful of EHR vendors and HL-7 zealots and attended Eric Schmidt’s keynote - all the while evangelizing the [...]


Intro
This paper proposes a solution to privacy and liability issues raised by the exchange of private health information over the Internet. The health care system is modeled as a collection of service providers communicating with each other over the Internet. Patient identity, identity credentials, trust between communicating providers, federation of services that trust each other [...]