Google killed Wave on August 4th. I wrote a bit this morning about Google Wave and knowledge worker collaboration over on the Beacon 16 blog, so if you want to know more or less what I’m talking about, check that one out.

What I liked about Wave from the healthcare perspective was the way it managed conversations. I could easily see the platform extended to care planning and coordination, and I had some fairly specific ideas along those lines. They may still see the light of day in the context of some our other projects – the idea of replacing chains of email with something that was just as easy to use but created an automatic running summary of the conclusions drawn by the group (and which made it easy to reconstruct the discussion behind that reasoning) was extremely compelling.