Google officially opened a medical office

Google Health, an online service for managing medical records and medical records of users, has begun work, the Associated Press reports. It allows you to store on the Internet data such as medical history, information about the medical condition, allergic reactions, the drugs shown and the results of laboratory tests.



First of all, Google Health will be helpful in emergency hospitalization. In this case, it is enough for doctors to connect to the system to get complete information about the patient received. The service is also convenient for treatment in various clinics and simultaneous monitoring by several doctors.

All user data is protected by login and password. Google Health fully supports the 1996 HIPAA Medical Data Security Standards. To simplify the work of doctors with Google Health, the system supports exporting data from offline applications.

Google Health has been developing the Google Health service for more than a year and a half. Google Health testing began in February 2008. Then 10 thousand patients of the Cleveland Clinic were connected to the service. For a month and a half, they entered health information into their virtual card.

A beta version of Google Health is currently running, with no ads. Google representatives emphasized that although in the future the service is planned to be used as an advertising platform, the number of advertisements will be minimized.

Google Health is not the first online medical service. Earlier, Microsoft HealthVault and Revolution Health projects were launched, allowing users to store their medical data on the Internet.

Source: lenta.ru .

Push.

Yes, the next high-quality service from Google is useful, convenient and practical. But, to be honest, a similar trend is starting to scare me. Indeed, now you can now compile a complete profile of a person: read his mail (google mail), study his contact list (google mail), get acquainted with plans for the future and other things (google calendar), study personal preferences (google bookmarks), know about the most little things (google notebook), and now also know about his health status (google health). It somehow becomes scary even to me, although I do not consider myself paranoid. =)