Screenshot of Google Health
Google Health is an online service which provides personal health record (PHR). The website is live and anybody can sign in, with a Google account, of course. It looks friendlier and easier to use than the competing offering by Microsoft called Health Vault. See the Google Health tour here.
A few excerpts from the "About Google Health" page are listed below:
Google Health allows you to store and manage all of your health information in one central place. And it's completely free. All you need to get started is a Google user name and password.
Why use Google Health:
- Keep your doctors up-to-date
- Stop filling out the same paperwork every time you see a new doctor
- Avoid getting the same lab tests done over and over again because your doctor cannot get copies of your latest results
- Don't lose your medical records because of a move, change in jobs or health insurance
With Google Health, you manage your health information — not your health insurance plan or your employer. You can access your information anywhere, at any time.
With Google Health, you can:
Create a health profile
- Build online health profiles: you can enter your health conditions, medications, allergies, and lab results into your Google Health profile
- Review trusted information on diseases and conditions
Search for doctors and hospitals
References:
Google Health launched. Google Blogoscoped.
Google Health: A View From the Inside. Wachter's World.
Image source: Google Health.
Related:
Would you like to see Dr. Google or Dr. Microsoft for your personal health records?
Adam Bosworth, Google Health Architect, Leaves Google
The Ultimate Guide to Google Health: 60+ Tips and Resources. NursingDegree.net.
Microsoft HealthVault and Google Health - The 'Coke and Pepsi' of Online Health (PHR). ReadWriteWeb, 10/2008.
Updated: 10/16/2008
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