I saw this post by Adam Bosworth, a Google VP, on Google’s blog today:

“I gave a speech today at the 2007 American Medical Association of Informatics (AMIA) Spring Congress. I used this opportunity to suggest a vision of what I think consumers should expect from our health care system over the next decade, including three core principles of a future health care system”

My first thought is, why is Google talking at the American Medical Association of Informatics? Is there a Healthcare future at Google? Working for a Healthcare company myself, I can attest, there is certainly a lot of money and information in the field. I wonder if someone like Google could help clean some of that information up.

I work a lot with Healthcare EDI in my position at work. In fact, a lot of what I do involves similar matching algorithms to what Google would use in order to match a normal user’s search. I think Google, whether for profit or not, could be a huge contender in such an industry and have a lot to provide. I sincerely wonder if this is where they’re going.

We have a couple doorknobs in my house that I need to replace here soon. I’d like to replace them with a fingerprint-based system. Preferably, I’d like one that can send authentication to a computer via network and let the computer determine who has access and who doesn’t. WIFI is definitely a plus, but I haven’t seen anything of the sort. I’d also like something as cheap as possible. My question is, is anyone aware of such a system, and if so, what do you recommend? Have any of you had experience setting up such a system?