[Med-privacy] GoogleHealth

[peter marshall]

GOOGLE OFFERS PERSONAL HEALTH RECORDS ON THE WEB
[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Steve Lohr]

After a year and half of development, Google began offering online =20
personal health records to the public on Monday. The Internet search =20
giant=92s service, Google Health, at google.com/health, is the latest =20=

entrant in the growing field of companies offering personal health =20
records on the Web. Their ranks range from longtime online health =20
services like WebMD to the software powerhouse Microsoft to start-ups =20=

like Revolution Health. The companies all hope to capitalize eventually =20=

on the trend of increasingly seeking health information online, and the =20=

potential of Internet tools to help consumers manage their own health =20=

care and medical spending.

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* Google opens website for storing medical records (Bloomberg)
http://www.latimes.com/business/printedition/la-fi-google20=20
-2008may20,0,1289006.story
* Google releases Google Health for medical records (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN1954983520080519