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January 04, 2007
Good enough?
Phil Bradley's weblog: 2007 - the year of the Google Bash
Overall, I think this post can be summarized in the following text:
"It's the average person in the street who makes the difference, and quite frankly, they don't care. They're happy using Google with all its faults and limitations. They think they know what they're doing, they're reasonably happy with the results that they get, and that's all that matters to them. They are not, in the main, prepared to spend any time learning better search, or exploring alternatives because Google is 'good enough'."
The ogre of "good enough" is scary in the context of health care and medical information. I'd like to think my healthcare providers are using information that is accurate, not just close enough for horseshoes. On the other hand, I understand that time is the most precious and most limited asset a busy clinician has; the challenge to medical inofrmatics, as I see it, is to make the access to validated and authentic health care information as quick, easy, and intuitive as searching Google. We've got a long way to go.
Posted by janeblum at January 4, 2007 06:58 AM