Friday, March 6, 2009

Sharing Personal Health Records and Information

Google Health has launched a new service that will allow anyone to share medical records and personal health information with people they trust. (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/google-health-helping-you-better.html)

This service is sure to ignite new debates over access to medical information but it is also going to provide a new window on how people's behaviors change when they can monitor their own health progress. The service will enable people to store their medical information in one place that can be accessed from anywhere, but it will also provide a new graphing feature that helps patients visualize their medical test information. This is great for, say, someone who has high cholesterol. They can use Google Health to enter their lab results on a monthly basis and see the trend over time.

Check it out. It is the wave of the future!

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