Google Unveils Health Service
Posted by Bezhou Feng on 29 February 2008 - 03:37 · 18 comments & 7566 views
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#1 Posted by 
markjensen on 29 Feb 2008 - 03:48
- And the more data they suck out of the computer systems of doctors, the better their targetted adverts will be to your own individual needs.
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#2 Posted by belto on 29 Feb 2008 - 04:02
- I for one am not against this they must make sure that it is extremly secure and they should be thinking about Americans Abroad whom will need their records from time to time.
An American Living Abroad.
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#3 Posted by trip21 on 29 Feb 2008 - 04:03
- I've worked in Medical IT for ten years (not in the US), and the last people you want storing your medical records is google!
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#4 Posted by Evolution on 29 Feb 2008 - 04:04
- As long as they use true 512-bit encryption then go for it Only allowing the involved parties to decrypt.... not including google.
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#5 Posted by jthomas5150 on 29 Feb 2008 - 04:07
- Man, if you don't have a job, you don't deserve health insurance.
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#5.1 Posted by I HAS PICKLE on 29 Feb 2008 - 05:46
- (jthomas5150 said @ #5)Man, if you don't have a job, you don't deserve health insurance.
You're an egocentric, arrogant prick. Get cancer and die. -
#5.2 Posted by ThaCrip on 29 Feb 2008 - 06:03
- maybe, but what if your injured and cant work all that well to begin with?
cause the way health care in america is right now it's WAY WAY overpriced! .... so unless u happen to get lucky with health insurance coverage your pretty much screwed.
as of now i dont have health insurance and i HOPE i dont ever need it anytime soon cause if i do im pretty much screwed cause most likely they will treat u like crap if you dont have it! -
#5.3 Posted by +Octol on 29 Feb 2008 - 06:11
- (jthomas5150 said @ #5)Man, if you don't have a job, you don't deserve health insurance.
Why would you say something like that? Are you really that profoundly stupid? Or are you just a bigot?
I agree that there are many people who don't have jobs as a matter of choice. But for many others, being jobless is a circumstance that's beyond their control: there just aren't any jobs to be had. And yet you would penalize them for that.
But why just pick on the jobless? Why not choose other people with attributes or circumstances that are beyond their control as a condition for denying them health insurance? How about people that don't have the right skin color or who don't live in the right country, or those who have mental or physical disabilities?
But of course I'm sure you don't really give a damn about any of these people one way or another. So why don't you crawl back under which ever neo-nazi rock you came from and stay there. Nobody wants you around here, jerk-off.
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#6 Posted by Chugworth on 29 Feb 2008 - 05:15
- Sounds like an interesting idea. Now the health ads you see could be targeted based on conditions you have. And I'm sure they'll like collecting statistics on the data. I have nothing against it really, as long as the user associations are kept secure.
However, as Google services continue to store increasingly important and private information, something I want them to focus more on is account security and user support. Maybe implement something like PayPal's password generating keychain thing. And definitely have phone support. If I ever have account trouble, I want to be able to be able to call up a number and have the problem fixed right away, rather than send off an email and hope to get a response. -
#6.1 Posted by belto on 29 Feb 2008 - 07:11
- if they do some how target thier ads to your health status thien this means that it is not so secure. i for one do not like my health condition/s to be publikly known especially to maketing gangs. only my doctor and myself has the legal right to this privy infomation. insurance companinis only need to know that i pay my premiums. (sorry for the spelling, this is not my forte).
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#6.2 Posted by Chugworth on 01 Mar 2008 - 02:46
- (belto said @ #6.1)if they do some how target thier ads to your health status thien this means that it is not so secure. i for one do not like my health condition/s to be publikly known especially to maketing gangs. only my doctor and myself has the legal right to this privy infomation. insurance companinis only need to know that i pay my premiums. (sorry for the spelling, this is not my forte).
Well, look at how Gmail works. It targets ads to you based on the contents of your emails, but that's all done automatically by computers. No one is actually reading your messages.
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#7 Posted by XerXis on 29 Feb 2008 - 07:46
- http://www.neowin.net/news/main/07/10/05/m...hes-healthvault
not much behind microsoft
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#8 Posted by Munkyman on 29 Feb 2008 - 08:52
- I'm glad I'm not american otherwise I'd end up with even more 'Enlarge your penis' advertisments.
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#8.1 Posted by El Sid on 29 Feb 2008 - 12:12
- Well if it says in your medical record that you have a small penis, it really sucks to be you
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#9 Posted by randomnut on 29 Feb 2008 - 10:22
- TBH I wouldn't care if they had my info or not. There's not a lot they can do with the details that would impact me anyway, and having access to the records myself would be benificial.
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#10 Posted by Lare2 on 01 Mar 2008 - 07:35
- I don't give a ****. I have almost no medical record. Living in the border My family doctors are on Mexico
"We don't know how to suck it out of the brains of doctors, but we know how to suck it out of the computer systems of doctors," Schmidt said in an interview after his speech. Schmidt said it would likely be a few months before Google Health is offered more widely.