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OpenMD.com | Why Health Search is at at Tipping Point

March 5, 2019 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

I’m thrilled to have OpenMD.com as a 33 charts sponsor. OpenMD.com is a health-focused search platform that selects for quality information from government agencies, global health organizations, medical journals, and reference sites. While the road to an independent health search engine has been fraught with failure, success may be a matter of timing. OpenMD.com, ... Continue Reading about OpenMD.com | Why Health Search is at at Tipping Point

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Google Always Has a First Page About You

August 14, 2018 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minutes

I remember speaking to the graduating class of medical students at Baylor College of Medicine. After a rousing group discussion over a number of interesting social media dilemmas, one budding orthopod chimed in that he was opting out of a public presence. He was going to stay quietly below the Google radar, he reassured me in front of his classmates. It was one of ... Continue Reading about Google Always Has a First Page About You

Tagged With: Digital Footprint, Google, public physician, Search

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Why Google Cares About Your Depression

August 26, 2017 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

Google wants to know if you’re depressed. Partnering with the US National Alliance on Mental Illness Google this week fashioned a tool to allow users to screen for depression. If you Google “depression” on a mobile device you’ll be taken to a“Knowledge Graph” and ultimately on to a Patient Health Questionnaire with nine key questions about depression and your mental ... Continue Reading about Why Google Cares About Your Depression

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Doctors and the Google Threat

December 2, 2015 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minutes

You may have seen this image floating around. The funny thing is that this is something I would have expected in 1997. At the the time we were adjusting to the idea of information as the 3rd party in the exam room. Patients had a heady sense of power; doctors had to adjust to a shifting relationship. Patients now seem to have a more mature relationship with ... Continue Reading about Doctors and the Google Threat

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Google’s Evolution as a Health Knowledge Engine

February 11, 2015 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

Google announced yesterday that they're breathing new life into health search.  In an effort to move from an information engine to a knowledge engine, Google will soon be offering information specially curated by physicians from within The Knowledge Graph.  For a company that’s declared itself less-than-invested in health care, this is a fascinating step. Here are ... Continue Reading about Google’s Evolution as a Health Knowledge Engine

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Doctor Google, the Quack

July 7, 2014 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minutes

For years we believed that Doctor Google would bring us the information we need.  Tom Krazit at Gigom suggests that the party may be over.  Search has become so algorithmically corrupt that its hard to understand or believe what we’re getting. The thing that gets me is that we’ve become such informed consumers in so many other areas of our lives. We buy organic ... Continue Reading about Doctor Google, the Quack

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Bryan Vartabedian is the Chief Pediatrics Officer at Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin and one of health care’s influential
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