Google makes health service publicly available
Posted by Troll via Associated Press on 19 May 2008 - 21:35 · 21 comments & 6851 views
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#1 Posted by El Sid on 19 May 2008 - 22:14
- And down we trek the dark road. Why would anyone want the worlds biggest web company to hold their medical details?
"Gmail. Now with Targetted V1ag|2a Spam - Because sometimes you just need the pills to pull" -
#1.1 Posted by rpgfan on 19 May 2008 - 22:47
- (El Sid said @ #1)And down we trek the dark road. Why would anyone want the worlds biggest web company to hold their medical details?
"Gmail. Now with Targetted V1ag|2a Spam - Because sometimes you just need the pills to pull"
LOL This is one Google service that isn't quite right... I don't mind things like OpenID for sites knowing who I am, but giving Google access to my records and making them available online isn't something I'm a fan of, whether I designate the "entities and individuals" or not...
I'm hoping this one will flop. One plus - they make you click a checkbox to agree to their TOS and to authorize your consent to share things.
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#1.2 Posted by Tikitiki on 19 May 2008 - 23:22
- (El Sid said @ #1)And down we trek the dark road. Why would anyone want the worlds biggest web company to hold their medical details?
Yeh, lets give it to some small company that no one has ever heard of. -
#1.3 Posted by El Sid on 20 May 2008 - 07:23
- (Tikitiki said @ #1.2)(El Sid said @ #1)And down we trek the dark road. Why would anyone want the worlds biggest web company to hold their medical details?
Yeh, lets give it to some small company that no one has ever heard of.
That's not the point, the fact of the matter is that your medical details are available online, which puts you at risk of phishing.
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#2 Posted by frbubba on 19 May 2008 - 22:49
- Personally, I would not want them having my medical records. Not that there is anything interesting in them anyway, but the very idea of them being out there. I suppose if one had a medical condition which was life threatening, the advantage could be that medical doctors could get access to your records immediately through Google, if that is what they have in mind.
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#3 Posted by hagjohn on 19 May 2008 - 23:12
- Not a good idea. We, the people, need to have more rights when it comes to our personal info.
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#4 Posted by Airlink on 19 May 2008 - 23:36
- Why would anyone in their right mind want their medical records to be on the internet?
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#4.1 Posted by PermaSt0ne on 20 May 2008 - 00:09
- so maybe one day you can visit any hospital on the world, have google not only transmit your records but automatically translate it to the correct language at the same time, thus allowing you to receive the correct treatment
and it's not out on the internet, it's on googles servers. quite a big difference there
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#4.2 Posted by elvenseven on 20 May 2008 - 04:52
- (PermaSt0ne said @ #4.1)so maybe one day you can visit any hospital on the world, have google not only transmit your records but automatically translate it to the correct language at the same time, thus allowing you to receive the correct treatment
and it's not out on the internet, it's on googles servers. quite a big difference there
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#4.3 Posted by trip21 on 20 May 2008 - 06:27
- (Airlink said @ #4)Why would anyone in their right mind want their medical records to be on the internet?
There are many good reasons. Having Google possess the records is not one of them! -
#4.4 Posted by +mrbester on 20 May 2008 - 09:30
- (PermaSt0ne said @ #4.1)so maybe one day you can visit any hospital on the world, have google not only transmit your records but automatically translate it to the correct language at the same time, thus allowing you to receive the correct treatment
and it's not out on the internet, it's on googles servers. quite a big difference there
If it isn't part of a VPN then it's on the internet, regardless of whose servers it is on.
If you're "visiting" a hospital, you'd be doing so voluntarily (and probably with an appointment) so that reason is bogus; it's a solution looking for a problem. If you're involved in an accident then having your records online makes no difference; emergency teams do not wait for patient records from wherever, they treat life-threatening incidents immediately. Should you have an existing pre-condition, like a bad reaction to penicillin, then you'd most likely already have a medical bracelet (internationally recognised) or similar detailing it. Again, no reason to have online records.
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#6 Posted by Mike Frett on 20 May 2008 - 04:01
- I'm participating, if that comforts some of you. I figure I might actually have a use for this given my fragile body.
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#8 Posted by UltimatePochii on 20 May 2008 - 06:34
- My life in Google's hands? no way
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#9 Posted by tsutton on 20 May 2008 - 08:42
- Soon, we'll see Google ads appearing...
"I see you have small penis - we offer penis extender"
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#10 Posted by Lare2 on 20 May 2008 - 15:50
- For some reason i think Insurance Companies are behind all this. Isn't MS doing something similar.
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#11 Posted by C_Guy on 20 May 2008 - 17:32
- Medical records are just the tip of the iceberg for Google. Soon they will know you better than you know yourself.
How they fooled anyone with their "do no evil" crap is beyond me.
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#12 Posted by +Lexcyn on 20 May 2008 - 18:54
- I would do this - except I have no way of importing my medical records, since I'm not sure how to go about obtaining mine. We don't really have a central medical record database here in Ontario anyways, so it would be quite hard for me to get anything.
That being said, I love the drug interactions section.
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#13 Posted by BigBoy on 20 May 2008 - 22:41
- Review of Google Health - Technology Achievement or Privacy Disaster?
http://www.naturalnews.com/023275.htmlIn its terms of service, Google Health openly says it may share a user's personal health records with the following groups:
• Subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted businesses who process personal information for Google.
• The U.S. government, following a request of such information from the government.
• Merger or acquisition partners, if Google sells off its Google Health assets someday. Under this scenario, Google promises to "provide notice" before personal information is transferred and "becomes subject to a different privacy policy."
In other words, under Google's own terms of service, which you can read at ((http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypo...), Google could first get a hundred million people to enter their health records under Google Health, then it could sell off those records to a third party which might have a new privacy policy that eliminates any real right to privacy and gives the new owner of the records the right to sell such records to anyone (such as drug companies, governments, employers and more).
Yeah this sounds like a great idea...
The Mountain View, Calif.-based Web search leader announced the public launch of Google Health during a Webcast on Monday. It lets users import records from a variety of care providers and pharmacies.
Google tested the service by storing medical records for a few thousand patient volunteers at the not-for-profit Cleveland Clinic.
"It's a really exciting day for us. We're really happy to be able to offer this service to all our users," Marissa Mayer, the Google executive overseeing the health project, said in the Webcast.