BLOGSCAN - Google Health and Drug and Device Advertising

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Fri, 05/23/2008 - 12:43

On the Bioethics Forum, see these comments by Karama Neal.

Google Health has been getting a lot of buzz for making some sort of personal electronic health record available to the masses.

Too bad that, as Neal noted, "it makes sales pitches from pharmaceutical companies part and parcel of medical decision-making." Apparently the software was designed to provide advertising pitching products relevant to a particular patient's condition to a physician looking at that patient's...

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