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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. The good, the bad, teh Google... by Merovign · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wow, the convenience! Wow, the spam! Wow, the research possibilities! Wow, the fraud!

    I think the more serious question is, is it inevitable? Probably.

    Would I prefer Google or MS to do it? No. Is it going to be one of them? probably.

    I never got excited about "net neutrality" 'cause whiever way it goes, somebody gets screwed.

    I used to be "super privacy man!" but looking more deeply at things like this, and I don't have a strong position other than "well, we'd better learn to keep an eye on our data - one more thing on the list."

    I think it's funny that cluster studies have been brought up as a positive... that's one of the areas that led me to spend more time trying to check the data when I hear about a study... it's kind of shocking how much innumeracy falls inbetween data and conclusions.