Google Health
I’ve just noticed that Google Health has been launched. This is a medical records system that allows the user to keep their patient records, as well as sharing them with who they see fit. It’s all web based, so patients can log in, record things about themselves (personal information, procedures, tests), import records, find doctors, and use 3rd party applications that can process your data (like epillbox.info which produces a schedule for medication via SMS or e-mail).
Even if you’re in the UK, you have have a nose around (although it very much works with US services). It’s all rather bloody wonderful, and makes me weep that it doesn’t apply to us in the UK. We’re spending £12+ billion to get something monopolised, centralised, hospital based that’s not going to arrive for 6 years and will be completely lame.
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How interesting Tim, a good story. We might have the same system here in the UK soon enough.