Patients in Cleveland Ohio will have their medical records held in their own Google accounts, according to Webware. This of course means they can be accessed anywhere by anyone the patient permits. Of course if public records are held in such a way then government (us) will need to find ways to guarantee access to the web – a little like our political fathers ensured clean water and effective sewer. There are concerns in principal about privacy – rightly so – but who claims that my medical records are currently private? Hat tip Idealgovernment.
Tag: Birmingham UK
Podnosh is based in Birmingham in the UK, so often we write about exciting things that are going on near us.
The language of Euromyths.
I’ve only just come across (thanks) the EU press office site set up specifically to bebunk myths about the EU which spring up in the British Press and feed the British (English?) imagination. I mention it here because I enjoy the tone of voice in the blurb which tells us: “The European Commission’s Press Office in London monitors the British press’s highly distorted coverage of the European Union. Euromyths are scare stories based on hearsay, rumours and half-truths, many of which have been repeated so often that they have become accepted truths within the public and media consciousness. The A-Z that follows is often ridiculous and sometimes amusing. But the serious question here is about the journalistic integrity of a press that denies the British public the truth about the policies and institutions of the European Union.”
It is this sort of confident conversational style that is so lacking in government based communication. Next step of course could be to allow commenst of turn the list into a wiki so we can all post pictures of straight bananas.
Podtreasure
Stephen Fry starts podcasting. What a voice. What a mind.