Mobile and portable devices are definitely part of the landscape..with eliminating stacks of paper so a physician can drill down and see what needs to be done without the time required to dig through a stack of paperwork..health care is still lagging behind the rest of the business world, and privacy issues play a big role as well.  BD

In politics, every serious candidate for the White House has a health care plan. So too in business, where the two leading candidates for Web supremacy, Google and Microsoft, are working up their plans to improve the nations health care.

The Google and Microsoft initiatives would give much more control to individuals, a trend many health experts see as inevitable. “Patients will ultimately be the stewards of their own information,” said John D. Halamka, a doctor and the chief information officer of the Harvard Medical School.

Microsoft will not disclose its product plans, but according to people working with the company the consumer effort will include online offerings as well as software to find, retrieve and store personal health information on personal computers, cellphones and other kinds of digital devices — perhaps even a wristwatch with wireless Internet links some day.

Google and Microsoft Look to Change Health Care - New York Times

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