Thanks Blogger Team! Blogs of Note - June 14, 2010

Wow! Thanks to the Blogger Team for highlighting my Health Care Law Blog as a Blogs of Note on Blogger Buzz, the official buzz from Blogger at Google, for Monday, June 14, 2010. More on the Historie of Blogs of Note.


Welcome to all stopping by the Health Care Law Blog for the first time. If you are interested in health care law, privacy, security, and technology I hope you will check out my recent posts and add my blog to your regular reading list. You can follow my future posts via RSS or on Twitter at @HealthLawBlog.

Testing Google's New Search Story

Yesterday I saw a post on the Official Google Blog about making your own search story videos in minutes. The post announced Google's simple to use search story video creation tool. Google introduced these search stories during the Superbowl with this ad, Parisian Love. All you have to do is type in your searches, pick your music and transfer it over to Youtube. Try it out here.

I thought I would test out the tool by creating a quick sample video marketing my health care legal practice featuring my Health Care Law Blog.

Also thinking about how marketing staffs for physicians, hospitals and health care organizations might creatively use this tool to create great marketing and public informational pieces. For example, a search story that reminds people to do a self examination, promotes a public service announcement, recommend certain preventative health measures or make healthier micro decisions.

Google Experimental Flu Trends for Mexico

Google Flu Trends have launched an Experimental Flu Trends for Mexico as a result of the ongoing concern over the current swine flue outbreak. The experimental model for Mexico shows estimates on possible flu activity in the various states in Mexico. Google Flu Trends uses aggregated Google search data to estimate possible flu activity in near real-time.

Additional details on how the Experimental Flu Trends for Mexico works and FAQs. More information about Google Flu Trends in my prior post.

Thanks to @rzeiger for the Twitter tip on the launch of the experimental tracker.