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Google to Offer Online Personal Health Records
Google plans to offer online personal health records to help patients tote and store their own x-rays and other health data.
Less than two weeks after Microsoft announced plans to offer personal health records, Google unveiled plans to follow suit.
Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of search products and user experience, said Wednesday here at the Web 2.0 Summit that Google plans to support the “storage and movement” of people’s health records.
Although she provided only scant details on the effort, she noted that Google became interested in the personal health record market as it watched Hurricane Katrina take aim at the Gulf Coast and all the paper-based records stored in various medical offices and hospitals in the region.
“This is obviously a really big vision. It is a huge endeavor. It will take a lot of breakthroughs in digitization. This is something we are committed to. You’ll be seeing a lot more activity here in the… months to come, so stay tuned.”
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am October 18 2007 @ 1:22 am
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