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Google’s Going Healthy
At a medical industry conference in Orlando, Google Inc. is providing new details today about its plans to let consumers store and access their medical records online and share them with other medical providers when they move or change doctors.
Google Health is designed to let users get their X-rays or medical reports through a secure Web site. They can check what medicines they’ve taken — and how much they paid for them — easily search for information on diseases or other health problems and send their records to new health care providers with a click of the mouse.
The Internet giant plans to work with a wide variety of health industry companies, from local hospitals and research centers to retailers and pharmacies like Wal-Mart and and Long’s Drugs.
Google officials say the new Google Health site will be safe and secure and that their personal information won’t be shared. And if a user has concerns about the privacy of their records, Google points out, they can always just go online and delete them.
Try doing that with the records at your doctor’s office.
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By LookeeLou
February 28, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this
So, how will we authenticate that we are actually trying to access our own medical records?
By LookeeLou
February 28, 2008 3:47 PM | Link to this
So, how will we authenticate that we are actually trying to access our own medical records?
By carolyn
February 28, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this
can parents get access to their children’s medical records. or will the child need to do that???
By t.dekkers
February 28, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this
so hackers can go on line and delete your medical info too. Or put info on your record that is not yours. But like everything else, anything can be used for the good or bad.
By baby sniff
February 28, 2008 8:50 PM | Link to this
baby sniff is too skerd for all of this. hail to the baby sniff and scootie!
By Brenda
February 29, 2008 7:41 AM | Link to this
I think it’s a great idea to find out blood work results instead of having to call in on the number they give us 15 times, and if it’s something they can’t post, then they just post to call the dr. or the nurse for more info. I like it.
By Brenda
February 29, 2008 7:42 AM | Link to this
I think it’s a great idea to find out blood work results instead of having to call in on the number they give us 15 times, and if it’s something they can’t post, then they just post to call the dr. or the nurse for more info. I like it.