Friday, March 27, 2009

University Role in Health IT

It is interesting to see the role that universities are playing in the health IT system sphere. Stanford is an example of a university promoting the health of its community but also extending beyond that to help individuals around the world. Here is a link of Standford's WellSphere. It incorporates much of the focus that Google has on the individual and empowering the individual with their health.

Many universities are promoting much of the same idea of empowering the individual. Is this a trend that universities will follow? Will the open source community move towards helping the individual and university setting while proprietary systems will appeal to large, profit driven health organizations?

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