Thursday, March 12, 2009

Google Health Activates PHR Sharing

Filed under: Informatics , Net News

Google Health users can now with a simple click make their personal health record available to anyone with an email address. Not surprisingly, the new feature has some privacy advocates up in arms.

More from the official Google blog:

For doctors and family members who are not yet online, we've also made it easier to share a hard copy of your information via our new printing feature. The wallet format prints a wallet-sized card that includes a user's medications, and allergies; the PDF format prints a letter-sized copy of a user's profile, including medications, allergies, conditions, and treatments.

Finally, we've launched a new graphing feature that helps patients visualize their medical test information. This is great for, say, someone who has high cholesterol. They can use Google Health to enter their lab results on a monthly basis and see the trend over time.

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Link: Google Health...

(hat tip: Dana Blankenhorn)

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