Ted Tuesday: Larry Page Makes the Case for Electronic Medical Records

"When I look at electronic medical records, and say 'Wouldn't it be amazing if everyone's EMR would be available anonymously to research doctors, and when someone accesses your medical records you could see which doctor accessed it and why? You can maybe learn about what condition you have. I think if we just do that, we could save a hundred-thousand lives this year. "

Good Morning Folks,

Larry Page is the CEO and cofounder of Google, making him one of the ruling minds of the web.

Onstage at TED2014, Charlie Rose interviews Google CEO Larry Page about his far-off vision for the company.  Says Larry, "Like I state in my keynotes nowadays, 2015 will be the year of Google and Apple entering aggressively into the Health-arena."

See the whole interview with Larry (who lost his voice a while ago and is slowly getting it back). As of 13:30 he's talking about electronic medical records.

Google some years ago had a project called Google Health started in 2008, a Personal Health Record (PHR) which they discontinued June 2011. A decision i think was too early, because patient empowerment was very small back then, but everyone sensed it would grow over the next years. As a matter of fact, we at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen are enrolling Hereismydata™ in exactly the way that Larry describes in this interview. 

Larry Page and Sergey Brin met in grad school at Stanford in the mid-'90s, and in 1996 started working on a search technology based on a new idea: that relevant results come from context. Their technology analyzed the number of times a given website was linked to by other sites — assuming that the more links, the more relevant the site — and ranked sites accordingly. In 1998, they opened Google in a garage-office in Menlo Park. In 1999 their software left beta and started its steady rise to web domination.

Beyond the company's ubiquitous search, including AdSense/AdWords, Google Maps, Google Earth and the mighty Gmail. In 2011, Page stepped back into his original role of chief executive officer. He now leads Google with high aims and big thinking, and finds time to devote to his projects like Google X, the idea lab for the out-there experiments that keep Google pushing the limits.

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Chief Happiness Officer

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