Gov't, Google Give Rx for Health Care IT

Eric Schmidt, chief executive of Google, talked on the panel about his work on a White House panel that delivered a report on health care IT. "Eighty percent of doctors have no IT systems at all in their offices, and even large providers have closed system that are not interoperable," Schmidt said.

The report called for the Administration to adopt a series of interoperability standards such as using metadata tagging. "Government is going to force a disaggregated industry to become interoperable," he said.

...Schmidt called for entrepreneurs to create open source software for health care IT as the platform for new services. He also called for refinements in standards for digital health records.