I came across a very interesting site the other day titled Ylabz. The owner of the site, Siamak Ashrafi, is a bio-computational specialist who describes how he came to work on the Google Health Wave in the following manner (excerpt taken from his site):
I have been using Google Health since their launch. I love the product and have had the good fortune to interact with various members of the Google Health Team (both at Google I/O and through emails). Google Health is gaining wide adoption and I can see it becoming a standard on which all health record systems interact.
Enter Google Wave: The 2009 Google I/O was a life altering event for me:-) I was provided a free ticket (Because Google Rocks Hard!!) and received a free Google Ion Phone which facilitated the creation of RxDigita [thank you Andrew Bowers !!!!]. The day following Google I/O, a wave hack-a-thon was held. Lars was there and I was going to tell him about the idea of a Google Health Wave, but I was not sure how all the parts were going to integrate together. I really wanted to integrate Google Health into Google Wave but I could not see how the nurse and doctors were going to communicate if all the doctors and nurses did not have wave accounts. So I worked on Gmail integration with Google Wave. Because at that time Google App Engine (java robot) could not receive email the project was abandoned.
The Light Went ON:The following month Google had two days of wave hack-a-thons. The first was devoted to wave applications and the second to wave federated server. I remember some guy from Wikipedia showing Dan Peterson (the product manager of Google Wave) that he had embedded a Google Wave into a wiki page. That was it! If I embedded the Google Health Wave into a patient information web page, then all the doctors and nurses would have access to that patient’s wave. By simply having a monitor next to the patient’s bed and displaying the patient’s data with an embedded wave, the doctors and nurses could use the wave for their interactions. The plan was to have the health data on the right and the Google Health Wave on the left. This seamed like the perfect solution to the problem of the AI Doctor. The nurse and doctor just use the wave to document what they were doing and the AI doctor could check data and suggest actions.
The work that Siamak is doing with the “Google Health Wave” is fantastic and really deserves to be highlighted and recognized. Thus, Ylabz has earned our November Developer Spotlight honours.
I have embedded the video from his site on how the “Google Health Wave” is meant to work. Siamak provides the following qualifying information reference his video:
The current scenario is not “real time” as the doctor and nurse are clicking [done] to process the data. This is just for narration timing. In the real application the doctor/nurse set the wave directive “~” and the wave analyzes in “real time”. An example of this is given at the end of the video. We will update this video soon.
Although this work still has some way to go, it is extremely promising and shows the real power that Google Wave can bring to other Google products. The integration work between Google Health and Google Wave is the first real look at Google Wave working with other Google products and we immediately see how much Wave enhances what was already a pretty impressive Google product. Imagine when Google Wave starts to be integrated with Google Docs, Google Mail and Google Voice.
So congratulations to Ylabz for their work on the “Google Health Wave”. That work and effort earns them November’s Developer Spotlight honours. Please visit the Ylabz site to see some of the other work Siamak is doing besides the “Google Health Wave” and leave a comment below to provide encouragement to Siamak for his great efforts.
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