Disruptiveness of Google Health

doi:10.1136/bmj.a2596

Published 19 November 2008, doi:10.1136/bmj.a2596
Cite this as: BMJ 2008;337:a2596

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Disruptiveness of Google Health

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Such is the pace of modern technology that the paper by Greenhalghand colleagues is already out of date.¹ They did not mentionthe launch of Google’s web based personal health recordon 20 May 2008 or the collapse of the NHS records system.²

Web 2.0 technology will no doubt disrupt the grand aspirationsof the NHS IT project. Techno-savvy patients using Google styleapplications might soon ask doctors to access their personalhealth records on the web.

Like the music industry, the NHS seems to have become self importantlycomplacent. We are deluding ourselves if we think that "theworld is waiting to see" how the NHS IT programme unfolds. Theworld has already seen that, six years into the programme, NPfITis overbudget and behind schedule. The NHS isn’t the globalgold standard. Instead, it is a hugely wasteful, inefficient,and bloated monopoly that needs some serious competition. . . . [Full text of this article]

Suparna Das, locum consultant anaesthetist¹

¹ King’s College Hospital, London SE5 9RS

suparna.das@btinternet.com

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