Health Sites: Some Are More Equal Than Others

Eric Schmidt wants to solve health care's "platform database problem" and one critic has countered that "computers cannot practice medicine." One of Google's initiatives is to guide consumers to safe, trusted health websites. Is that such a bad thing? Google's search results can make or break a site or a business model, which is where dot-com blogs come in, but they also have the potential to make or break a consumer's access to health information, which is where e-patients.net comes in.