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Thursday, February 21, 2008 --- 154 days ago http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2008/02/21/google-goog-enters-medical-industry/
 Filed under: Launches , Consumer experience , Google (GOOG) Google (NASDAQ: GOOG ) will enter the medical records business with held of The Cleveland Clinic, one of the top hospitals in the world.
According to The Wall Street Journal (subscription required), " Under the pilot, patients who already use Cleveland Clinic's personal health record system can securely share medical information such as prescriptions, conditions and allergies between the Cleveland Clinic system and a Google health-profile online."
The program is a good idea. Patients' records currently are tied to the data held by doctors and hospitals. If a patient wants to access their data or share it with other health-care providers, they have to request and wait, sometimes for days, to get information that could be very useful in their treatment.
The Google program may ruffle feathers of both doctors and health-care software management companies. Doctors are concerned with keeping records private. Once they are stored and accessible on the web this will be harder to control. Software companies which supply programs for managing medical records may find that the Google system competes with some of their business based on organizing and storing patient information.
But, for the patient who now has new-found access to his own data, the program gives them power over their own medical data.
Douglas A. McIntyre is an editor at 247wallst.com. ... |
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