[Med-privacy] Google, IBM

[Marshall Peter]

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  GOOGLE, IBM PROMOTE ONLINE HEALTH RECORDS
  [SOURCE: Wall Street Journal, AUTHOR: Jessica Vascellaro, William 
Bulkeley]
  Google, moving to improve its online health-record service, is teaming 
with International Business Machines to allow patients to add data 
generated from home-health monitoring products, such as blood-pressure 
cuffs and glucose meters. The companies said software developed by IBM, 
with consumers' permission, can shift the data into a personal health 
record in Google Health, the search giant's service for helping 
consumers manage and store their health information online. Other 
software lets the patient transfer the information from there to an 
electronic medical record kept by providers like health-care companies 
and primary-care physicians. At a time when the Obama administration 
has made electronic health records a priority and included funds in the 
stimulus plan to encourage providers to adopt records, the 
collaboration between the two companies has the potential to 
"kick-start" use of online monitoring of chronic diseases. [more at the 
URL below]
http://benton.org/node/21668
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HEALTH RECORDS

 [SOURCE: Wall Street Journal, AUTHOR: Jessica Vascellaro, William
Bulkeley]

 Google, moving to improve its online health-record service, is
teaming with International Business Machines to allow patients to add
data generated from home-health monitoring products, such as
blood-pressure cuffs and glucose meters. The companies said software
developed by IBM, with consumers' permission, can shift the data into
a personal health record in Google Health, the search giant's service
for helping consumers manage and store their health information
online. Other software lets the patient transfer the information from
there to an electronic medical record kept by providers like
health-care companies and primary-care physicians. At a time when the
Obama administration has made electronic health records a priority and
included funds in the stimulus plan to encourage providers to adopt
records, the collaboration between the two companies has the potential
to "kick-start" use of online monitoring of chronic diseases. [more at
the URL below]

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