Google launches his information online medical service
The Americans are able since May 20 to stock free their medical file on Internet thanks to Google Health. This new service proposed by the business of Radford allows the patient to create a true notebook of potential health, in which it can register its analysis results, its stays to the hospital or again the medicines that it takes.
Connected with pharmacies, clinics and laboratories, the service allows the user to divide these information with his doctor or with a hospital in case of urgent intervention. Google Health allows equally to look for a doctor of which the specialty corresponds to advisable pathologies or to warn the patient on possible interactions between several medicines that were prescribed him.
Google asserted to have" set up politics of protection of the private data the strictest one that is". It does not have therefore theoretically any risk for the net surfer to see his electronic medical records made public on the Web. "Google stocks a copy of your medical data, to your place. It is a data basis controlled by the user who Google does nothing but to accommodate", insisted Roni Zeiger, director of Google Health.
Google launches thus a new challenge to the world-wide giant of software, Microsoft, that offers a similar service since October 2007 with HealthVault.
