Has anyone heard rumors -- or facts -- substantiating that Google Health will be formally announced at HIMSS08?

Here's an excerpt from Google VP Adam Bosworth's keynote speech at a national conference sponsored by The Markle Foundation on Dec. 7, 2006:

 "We live in a world in which information flows at the speed of light and in which Google can find all the most relevant answers to any query you submit across the entire Web in less than one-third of a second and yet, in general, your physician cannot get lab results from your last specialist without paper and fax. If the information were trivial and irrelevant, this would at least be understandable. It would still be odd in a world in which I can look up effortlessly the local movie schedules or what people think about some cartoon, but it would just be an oddity.

"But this information really matters -- to use the cliche, it can be a matter of life and death. And the right word to describe our inability to put our hands on it is not oddity -- but travesty.

"...Let's put the patients in charge of their health and medical information. Let's build a system which puts the people who are sick in control. For every single medical and health-related event, let's make sure that patients can effortlessly retrieve and share their information in its totality and then use it to ensure they get the best quality of care possible. It is their health. The people who treat, diagnose, test or dispense medications to patients should be required to deliver, instantly, over the Net, at the speed of light, that information to those patients to use as they see fit. If these patients choose to share it with caregivers or health coaches or nursing services, that should be their right."