Google Health - Manage Your Personal Medical Records

Google recently launched personal health information portal Google Health,
allows users to store their medical information, and for disease symptoms and other drug related information.

Google Health is a major scheme to highlight the current fragmented medical records archive methods.

Google Health Benefits

If you want to track your prescription drugs over the years, there had been the attendance records and have received all the medical testing, Google Health is a good place to record such information. It is particularly worth mentioning that when you add the drugs to your profile, there will be a warning symbol to remind you the potential drug interactions, including interactions among drugs, diseases, and allergies.

Of course, few people will retain all of their medical records, also did not have the time or skills to correct the information and input to their own folder one by one. Google Health concept is to allow you access to health care providers — doctors, pharmacies, medical testing — give you the information. Google with a number of clinics, pharmacies and medical centres established a cooperative relationship, but on the current terms, your family physician may not yet be included in this system.

Once you have introduced your data, you can add arbitrary headnote and comments (but not amended). When you see another doctor, or transferred to another hospital, you will be able to transfer your complete online records to them, you also save money and time (save the cost of repeated testing), and may even save your own life (if any information you have the symptoms, allergies, etc.). This is for your medical records should be thought of, but the portability of medical information has been very poor, and Google Health is trying to solve this problem.

But every advantage has its disadvantage, in a nutshell, the Secret Worry of Google Health is privacy. Marissa Mayer(the vice president of Google) said, health information stored in the new, impregnable server, but visit Google Health is the standard Gmail/Google login, many users use the password for a long time, or use some simple, very weak password. The user’s security is the weakest link, and the service can search a number of anonymous users data.

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