This small cluster of articles hang together around the large companies/US stimulus funding/electronic medical records issue.
Tech giants line up for e-health dollars (Short)
The Dubious Promise of Digital Medicine (6 pages)
Will Microsoft and Google Take Mobile Health into the Clouds? (Only reading one? Read this.)
Clouds come and go
Why would anyone trust their data to any of these 3rd parties? All the web enabled services have had security breaches and reliability issues. They may not be telehealth services but the infrastructure will be similar.
The NHS in the UK has a secure network this just needs making more open to allow sharing of data across deptarments. Lets hope the government doesn’t waste millions employing consultants to write a hundred page document on how it could be, but have no practical experience of how to make it happen for real. As is normally the case.