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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. Google is not to be trusted by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No private company should be so entrenched in society that it would be impossible to survive without the service they provide. If I can't get a job without a Google Health "badge", then something somewhere has gone horribly wrong.

    This is already a big problem with credit companies becoming so pervasive. It's also bad enough that private companies are leading the American military around by the nose. But that pales in comparison to the actual, direct, and personal limits imposed by something like the system the article is talking about.

    1. Re:Google is not to be trusted by JCSoRocks · · Score: 5, Insightful

      That's the very point the OP was making. The credit companies are already ridiculous. Not, "yay credit companies! it's totally ok that they can ruin your life!"

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    2. Re:Google is not to be trusted by niceone · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yes, especially as in 10 years time it will probably still be Google Health beta.

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  2. Oh Hell by Target+Practice · · Score: 5, Funny

    Web 3.0? What is that supposed to be? A LAMP application hooked up to a cage of weasels?

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    1. Re:Oh Hell by TheRealFixer · · Score: 5, Funny

      Correct. Except, the cage is also on rails.