ACR Cites Google® for Lack of Radiologists on Health Advisory Council
ACR Chair Arl Van Moore, Jr., M.D., recently wrote a letter to Google®, chastising the search engine giant for its curious decision not to include, among other medical specialists, a radiologist or radiation oncologist on their recently created 22-member, Google Health Advisory Council.
In Google’s recent announcement regarding the creation of the council, it was stated, “The mission of the Google Health Advisory Council is broadly to help us better understand the problems consumers and providers face every day…” Google’s release also stated “We want to help users make more empowered and informed healthcare decisions, and have been steadily developing our ability to make our search results more medically relevant and more helpful to users.”
The Google Health Advisory Council and its lack of representation from various medical fields are discussed in a recent Medicexchange.com article, which quotes ACR Chair Moore as saying; “…it is unfortunate, and frankly quite puzzling, that Google has apparently chosen to not include a representative from radiology, a vital, and increasingly far-reaching area of medicine.”
Moore added, “The ACR, one of the largest medical specialty societies in the world, and one of the leading National Cancer Institute (NCI) funded cancer research organizations in the United States, strongly urges Google to invite a representative from radiology to be a member of the Google Health Advisory Council at its earliest convenience."
Click here (gblog@google.com) to write to Google to express your opinion regarding the Google Health Advisory Council and its lack of radiology representation.
Click here to read Dr. Moore’s letter to Google.