Health records online with Google?
It seems to be a trend. Big guns like Microsoft, and now Google, want you to store your medical records online with them. In theory, having a central repository where authorized medical professionals anywhere can access your medical records makes a lot of sense. One big catch, however, is that word “authorized”. Can you trust Microsoft or Google or whoever to really protect the privacy of such sensitive information? Given the trouble that credit card companies and banks seem to have with security breaches and records falling off of trucks, one wonders. Then there is the problem that a central repository is not so central if there are multiple places for a person to store his or her records. Are doctors going to have to subscribe to a dozen different services? Is Microsoft going to let Google have access to its records?
Read more at the Google Blog or in an article at the Wall Street Journal.
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