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Google Health Open Platform Is Great — Or Awful

Posted by timothy on from the now-that's-a-dialectic dept.

JackPowers writes "The Google Health APIs enable portable, standardized, open architecture, extensible personal health records, which is nice but boring if they're just used to manage the paperwork of the doctor/patient relationship. But once the data is set free, all kinds of Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 apps are possible. This article looks ahead 10 years at Best Case Scenarios. A follow-up article lists the Worst Case Scenarios."

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  1. Re:Google is not to be trusted by edrobinson · · Score: 1, Troll

    This has nothing to do with transcription errors. They will happen no matter what as long as people are involved.

    I believe that massive healthcare databases could solve myriad problems particularly that of providing all doctors access to your complete medical record.

    This whole privacy thing is a sham and things like HIPAA are solutions looking for problems.