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The Imperfectionist
Winter/Spring 2013 • Christine Rosen on Evgeny Morozov’s case against digital salvation
Friendship Does Not Compute
Spring 2012 • Peter Lopatin on the pathologies that arise from digital relationships
The Folly of Internet Freedom
The Mistake of Talking About the Internet as a Human Right
Summer 2011 • Eric R. Sterner
The Trouble with Cyber Arms Control
Fall 2010 • Christopher A. Ford on why we should be wary of Russian and Chinese proposals
Shoot First, Get Copyright Later
Summer 2010
A ‘Third Way,’ Or a Bridge to Nowhere?
The FCC’s Difficult Path Toward Net Neutrality
August 30, 2010
The Rise of Cyber-Schools
Online Education and Its Enemies
Spring 2009 • Liam Julian
The True Face of Digital Democracy
Spring 2009 • Sebastian Waisman on the Internet and civic engagement
The Virtual Public Square
Spring 2009 • Alan Jacobs reviews Richard John Neuhaus’s final book
Staying Afloat
Treading Water in a Sea of Data
Fall 2008 • Peter Suderman
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Google Health and Your Health
May 20, 2008 •
This week, Google unveiled Google Health, its long-awaited portal for storing patient medical records. This is another promising development in the long, slow movement to better use of information technology (IT) in health care. As matters stand, most patient records are stored on paper and housed inaccessibly in physicians’ offices, despite the revolution in IT which has transformed most other sectors of the American economy (see my New Atlantis article “The Clipboard of the Future” for more on the health IT conundrum).
The new Google portal is free to users. Data must be entered into the system by participating medical providers or the patients themselves. So far, Google has signed up a handful of high-profile participating providers, including the highly respected Cleveland Clinic. Patients getting care with these providers can have their medical information automatically uploaded into their Google Health account. But, most physicians and hospitals do not yet have the ability to easily place patient data onto the Internet, so Google Health users will have to rely on themselves to keep their patient information complete and up-to-date.
Google’s new health venture will compete directly with Microsoft’s Health Vault, launched in 2007. Both companies have invested heavily in privacy protection to give users confidence that their online patient records are secure.
