Here’s a couple of e-health stories worth checking out.

First, AOL’s Steve Case announced the founding of his $500 million healthcare Revolution Health Group. Case’s partners, among others include former Secretary of State, Colin Powell.

According to Powell,

“There’s no part of American life right now that is more in need of imagination and new ideas than health care.”

Intel founder Andrew Grove, had his article “Efficiency in the Health Care Industries: A View From the Outside,” published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The New York Times profiles the man and his interest in healthcare here.

In the article, Grove

talked about his quest to find what he called “the Rosetta code” for the health care industry. By that he means the development of software “that takes incompatible systems and translates them into each other, so that one system can automatically read the other.” He thinks there are few things more important for patients than to have any doctor, anywhere, be able to access their medical records, but because the industry is so fragmented, with so many records still in paper form, that is currently impossible.

Probably, it’s time for me to come up with a better format to summarize articles since I can probably add one or two a day.