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Google to Offer Online Personal Health Records

Posted by samzenpus on from the google-your-liver-profile dept.

hhavensteincw writes "Less than two weeks after Microsoft announced plans to offer personal health records, Google announced today that it plans to offer online personal health records to help patients tote and store their own x-rays and other health data. Google made the announcement Wednesday at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco."

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  1. Translation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We don't have enough of your personal data. Why don't you let us have your health records too?

    1. Re:Translation by Jarjarthejedi · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Unfortunately that's pretty close to the facts...Google is starting to get closer and closer to that satirical picture where someone googles "Where are my Car Keys" and Google actually knows. For some this may be a boon, but it also has negative impacts as well.

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  2. awesome by thatshortkid · · Score: 5, Insightful

    targeted ads for calcium supplements next to broken bone x-rays, valtrex next to any note with keyword "itchy" or "burns", viagra/levitra with "limp". the possibilities are endless!

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  3. Oh hell no. Give me a USB drive and encryption. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why can't *I* keep my medical records on me, on my person with a password on me, on my person?

    The way I figure it is an encrypted USB drive and public key that I give my current provider.

    I would also like to fire them (and their ability to have access to my records) at whim.

    Unlike Clooney, I want *MY* data to be MINE. Not in the hands of others.

    Google with my records? I don't think so.

  4. Data mining by quokkapox · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Epidemiological data mining. Google Earth overlays, with clusters of heart disease, diabetes, obesity, tooth decay, and E. coli infections near fast food restaurants. There might be clusters of radon-related lung cancer. There are some really nifty things you could find out by centralizing medical records. Alter or improve traffic patterns in neighborhoods where statistically more people are getting hit by cars.

    I'm not advocating that we actually do all this, just pointing out some possibilities.

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