Since last one and a half year, Google has been working to design a health care product offering which caters to the medical needs and a strategy of providing the most vital information of the patient – the consumer health information.
Though since last one and a half year Google was silently working on this issue, but recently, it is going into a big contract - an endorsement from the Cleveland Clinic. It is a big medical center which is beginning a pilot project with Google to associate the health care information for some of its patients with Google personal health records.
Cleveland Clinic is said to be at the cutting edge of health information technology, and it has more than 100,000 patients each having a personal health record. Unfortunately, all the patients need to keep their medical records for themselves.
The Google personal health records can provide a solution to that problem, among others. A person can approve the transfer of information on, say, medical conditions, allergies, medications and laboratory results from the clinic’s computers to a Google personal health record — a series of secure Web pages.
Now, Google is not the only one of several companies trying to get into the money making business from Web-based personal health records. Microsoft, previosuly brought out its entry, called HealthVault, in October, and it has commitments from medical centers including New York-Presbyterian Hospital and the Mayo Clinic. WebMD, Revolution Health and others also offer personal health records.
Anyways, Google is Google. It has the capacity to hit at any firm in the world.
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