Adam Bosworth, Google's Vice President of Engineering, talked about his interests in the issues of health care and health information. When helping care for his mother who battled with cancer for four years and eventually died, he saw firsthand how challenging the health care system was in supporting caregivers and communicating between different medical organisations.
He found it incredibly challenging to get the right information that could help his mother make the right decisions in very difficult times. He felt strongly that patients need easy acess to medical information and be able to organize their own health information so that they can control their own health information.
In his speech " Connecting Americans to their health care : empowered consumers, personal health records and emerging technologies" at a national conference in Washington, D. C., he said that the lack of easily accessible, comprehensive medical records results in people suffering and dying unnecessarily. An efficient system would improve the standard of care by giving patients control over their health and medical information, patients would be able to easily retrieve and share their information in its totality and use it to ensure that they get the best possible quality of care. He is confident that increased and more trageted use of technology will help improve healthcare for all. Read more ….
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