Your Old Copy Machine a Security Risk?
If this is true (and it appears so, I’m just using conditional since it’s so insane .. beyond insane) discarded old photocopiers may represent a huge security / privacy risk. Nearly every digital copier built since 2002 contains a hard drive – like the one on your personal computer – storing an image of every […]

Google Health Will Not Belly Flop but You Have to Take Charge
A few months ago I blasted both Google Health and Microsoft Healthvault for not being patient-focused – but I am not giving up on them. Later Krish discussed how adding pharmacy chains boost the value Google Health can provide. Just like the pharmacy story, today’s dispute relates to data transfer into these systems. Google Health […]

Google Health Gets A Boost With The Addition Of CVS Pharmacy
Image via CrunchBase Google Health, the SaaS approach to Health Care records by Google Inc., received a boost today with the addition of CVS pharmacy to the list of pharmacies they support. I am a great sucker of online health records and, even though I was not greatly impressed, I had a neutral opinion about […]

The Sorry State of Health 2.0 – Google Health & Microsoft HealthVault
Ever since I started actively managing my parents’ health care I’ve been a heavy user of electronic health records and communication systems, and I am immensely frustrated. Frustrated at the paper-based world we’re facing in the 21st century, but also at my peers, reviewers in the media, blogs, when they discuss new developments in the […]