Google Inc. is now offering the general public electronic access to their medical records and other health-related information.The Mountain View, Calif.-based Web search leader announced the public launch of Google Health during a Webcast on Monday. It lets users import records from a variety of care providers and pharmacies.
Google tested the service by storing medical records for a few thousand patient volunteers at the not-for-profit Cleveland Clinic.
"It's a really exciting day for us. We're really happy to be able to offer this service to all our users," Marissa Mayer, the Google executive overseeing the health project, said in the Webcast.
Link: Google Health
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"Gmail. Now with Targetted V1ag|2a Spam - Because sometimes you just need the pills to pull"
LOL This is one Google service that isn't quite right... I don't mind things like OpenID for sites knowing who I am, but giving Google access to my records and making them available online isn't something I'm a fan of, whether I designate the "entities and individuals" or not...
I'm hoping this one will flop. One plus - they make you click a checkbox to agree to their TOS and to authorize your consent to share things.
Yeh, lets give it to some small company that no one has ever heard of.
Yeh, lets give it to some small company that no one has ever heard of.
That's not the point, the fact of the matter is that your medical details are available online, which puts you at risk of phishing.
and it's not out on the internet, it's on googles servers. quite a big difference there
and it's not out on the internet, it's on googles servers. quite a big difference there
That does not sound like a good reason.
There are many good reasons. Having Google possess the records is not one of them!
and it's not out on the internet, it's on googles servers. quite a big difference there
If it isn't part of a VPN then it's on the internet, regardless of whose servers it is on.
If you're "visiting" a hospital, you'd be doing so voluntarily (and probably with an appointment) so that reason is bogus; it's a solution looking for a problem. If you're involved in an accident then having your records online makes no difference; emergency teams do not wait for patient records from wherever, they treat life-threatening incidents immediately. Should you have an existing pre-condition, like a bad reaction to penicillin, then you'd most likely already have a medical bracelet (internationally recognised) or similar detailing it. Again, no reason to have online records.
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How they fooled anyone with their "do no evil" crap is beyond me.
That being said, I love the drug interactions section.
http://www.naturalnews.com/023275.html
• Subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted businesses who process personal information for Google.
• The U.S. government, following a request of such information from the government.
• Merger or acquisition partners, if Google sells off its Google Health assets someday. Under this scenario, Google promises to "provide notice" before personal information is transferred and "becomes subject to a different privacy policy."
In other words, under Google's own terms of service, which you can read at ((http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypo...), Google could first get a hundred million people to enter their health records under Google Health, then it could sell off those records to a third party which might have a new privacy policy that eliminates any real right to privacy and gives the new owner of the records the right to sell such records to anyone (such as drug companies, governments, employers and more).
Yeah this sounds like a great idea...
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