Screenshot of Google Health

Google Health is an online service which provides personal health record (PHR). The website is live and anybody can sign in, with a Google account, of course. It looks friendlier and easier to use than the competing offering by Microsoft called Health Vault. See the Google Health tour here.

A few excerpts from the “About Google Health” page are listed below:

Google Health allows you to store and manage all of your health information in one central place. And it’s completely free. All you need to get started is a Google user name and password.

Why use Google Health:

- Keep your doctors up-to-date
- Stop filling out the same paperwork every time you see a new doctor
- Avoid getting the same lab tests done over and over again because your doctor

cannot get copies of your latest results
- Don’t lose your medical records because of a move, change in jobs or health insurance

With Google Health, you manage your health information — not your health insurance plan or your employer. You can access your information anywhere, at any time.

With Google Health, you can:


Create a health profile

- Build online health profiles: you can enter your health conditions, medications, allergies, and lab results into your Google Health profile

- Review trusted information on diseases and conditions


Search for doctors and hospitals

References:
Google Health launched. Google Blogoscoped.
Image source: Google Health.

Related:
Would you like to see Dr. Google or Dr. Microsoft for your personal health records?
Adam Bosworth, Google Health Architect, Leaves Google

Original post by noreply@blogger.com (Clinical Cases)

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