See? Google Won’t Spend Money On Everything.

Google has access to nearly limitless cash and resources. But not totally limitless: It is killing off Google PowerMeter and Google Health.
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Keas's Adam Bosworth Speaks About New Health Care Start-Up!

The former head of Google Health, Adam Bosworth, officially unveiled his much anticipated health-care start-up today at the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco, showing off a site that will offer step-by-step and personalized “care plans,” as well as many kinds of online tools to better understand the data and tips on how to stay healthy. It’s perfect timing, given the health-care debate now raging in Washington, which is about how people make health-care decisions–or, more precisely, how they usually do not. Here’s a video interview with Bosworth.
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MSN Debuts Online Health Service

MSN, Microsoft’s online portal, released a beta version of a service to let users manage their health information on the Web. Called My Health Info, the Microsoft offering, which includes a range of widgets and other Web tools, wades into an area that many are attempting to crack, including Google.
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BoomTown Talks to a Puppet

The ubiquitous puppet interviewer (not) Shel Israel–who BoomTown has definitively determined is powered by the hand of the very funny Loren Feldman of 1938 Media–came to ATD HQ (a.k.a., the cottage behind my house) yesterday for a lovely chat.
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The Doctor Will Google You Now

New From Google: "Google Privacy Disaster Waiting to Happen"

There’s an estimated $1 billion to be had in health-search advertising, and though Google (GOOG) won’t admit it, it’s clear the company has designs on it. Today the search sovereign announced a pilot program with the Cleveland Clinic that will enable the health-care organization’s patients to store their health records in their Google Accounts. The [...]

New From Google: “Google Privacy Disaster Waiting to Happen”

There’s an estimated $1 billion to be had in health-search advertising, and though Google (GOOG) won’t admit it, it’s clear the company has designs on it. Today the search sovereign announced a pilot program with the Cleveland Clinic that will enable the health-care organization’s patients to store their health records in their Google Accounts. The [...]

Web 2.0 Summit: Google's Marissa Mayer

It is Google’s vision that these two core capabilities–reliable, unambiguous, computable medical data and safe systems for trust and authentication and controlled access–will dovetail with the consumer needs for discovery about everything in their health arena. As this rolls out and consumers truly can discover what is the state of the art and what they [...]

Web 2.0 Summit: Google’s Marissa Mayer

It is Google’s vision that these two core capabilities–reliable, unambiguous, computable medical data and safe systems for trust and authentication and controlled access–will dovetail with the consumer needs for discovery about everything in their health arena. As this rolls out and consumers truly can discover what is the state of the art and what they [...]