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Google Flu – Urine on the Google Flu Grave

October 1, 2015 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minute

Google fluCelebrating the failure of Google flu trends has evolved as a full-contact sport for digital health watchers. The world celebrated Google’s potential and then its failure. This piece from Wired shouldn’t be missed. A civil and properly-penned postmortem that sees Google’s predictive potential beyond our shallow schadenfreude.

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Bryan Vartabedian is a pediatrician at Baylor College of Medicine / Texas Children’s Hospital and one of health care’s influential voices on technology & medicine.
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