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"Our partnership with IBM will help both providers and users gain access to their device data in a highly simplified and automated fashion," Sameer Samat, director for
Google Health, said.
It begins by a patient setting an account on a secure website such as
Google Health PHR that permits data transmission and receipt from providers, insurers, and financial intuitions.
Google, for example, offers access to the MyMedicalSummary and the yourHealth by UNIVAL services for users who need help entering records into
Google Health, and it offers access to MediConnect Global Inc., Salt Lake City, for users who need help getting the records.
Google launched
Google Health this spring with the aim of establishing itself as the leading repository of personal health records (PHR) and positioning itself as a primary clearinghouse for clinical information, self-care tools, and provider ratings to help patients make educated health care decisions.
Google launched
Google Health this spring with an aim of establishing itself as the leading repository of personal health records (PHR).
Executives at both HealthVault and
Google Health said they believe digitally enabled patients will help push more doctors to implement electronic medical records systems in their offices.
Internet search giant Google rolled out its long-awaited
Google Health product, which will enable users to upload and store medical records from many sources.
Google's CEO demonstrated the company's new personal medical information service,
Google Health, that will allow users to have a single repository for records, X-rays, prescriptions and other medical history.
The company had earlier started the
Google Health project that aimed at digitizing personal health record services, but the company was shut down in 2011.