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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. wow... by simonharvey · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    it is not April the 1st????

    is it?

  2. I've predicted it, sort of... by Seismologist · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    See cid=20905389: I was just joking about this, but maybe I should start a checklist.

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  3. No, MS is going after VistA, Google is drafting by SgtChaireBourne · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    No, MS is simply going after VistA. Now that the MS marketing engine has had a year to Google-bomb them out of existence. After all, if it doesn't exist in Google then it's not on the net, right?

    With somewhat more than a year of MS' loyal media outlets yammering about MS Windows Vista and 'turfers and Gold Partners setting up blogs and fake websites about MS Windows Vista, the real VistA should be long gone from even the caches. Don't even get me started on the corporate PR playground that is Wikipedia.

    So now, when administrators decide to investigate what's the most widely used medial record system, they won't likely find it on the net. Nor will they find out that it is modular, standards, based and like most software, VistA is Open Source *.

    (OK, technically it's public domain, but you do get the source under a Crowley-style license as a result.)

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  4. Re:Fuck that shit. by Chapter80 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Fuck that shit.
    Insightful? ok, mods.

    I don't think that the intent is to scan and catalog information regarding feces, or to copulate with said feces. However, that might be in Rev 2.

  5. Re:MS Pulled an apple by PopeRatzo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    could be I'm an AC because I'm a generally reputable community member who's worried about the career impact of discussing things learned in confidence in a public forum


    un-huh. So what's to stop you from making an account using a name that's not yours, using a spamcatcher webmail account?

    Or do you think my real name is Pope Ratzo?

    Posting with an account lets the rest of us evaluate just how much weight to give your comments. Posting as an AC lets us assume you're full of shit.
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