Google health

Google Health, the "Weaver" project, is a Google-developed project for collecting and storing heterogeneous medical information. Google’s Vice President of Development, Adam Bosworth ( Adam Bosworth ), has long supported this program in every way, and now we have the opportunity to learn some details. Adam argues that the existing health care system does not cope where necessary to organize the interaction of various medical institutions. According to him, people need a system of medical information available to all medical organizations. Medical records should be easily accessible and well organized to help your doctor in his work. Just Adam
added - "providing information - may become the mission of Google."


Shelf with medical records
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In yesterday's article, the New York Times writes (English): “About 20 percent of patients (US) have electronic medical records, compared with paper ones, while the Bush administration is actively pushing the industry to accelerate the transition to electronic maps. Nevertheless, these records are still more accessible to doctors, medical institutions and insurers. The patient moves to another state, for example, and his notes usually remain in the same place. ” However, the New York Times continues, initiatives like Google "allow for much greater control over users, although most medical experts consider this trend to be inevitable." The main users of Google Health are “doctors and medical consultants,” according to the New York Times. [*]

To understand what you can get from the future of Google Health, look at these pictures from the prototype sent to the editor. Since this is only a prototype, further changes are possible in the program, including quite significant ones. “We continue to make mistakes and we have a long way to go,” said Adam Bosworth.


Google Health has two main tabs: Profiles and Medical contacts. The profiles contain several additional sections, including “Services and Medical Indications”, “Condition and Symptoms”, “Drugs”, “Age, Sex, Height ...” and “Family History”.
The non-disclosure agreement, at the bottom of the page, reads “All entered information will not be disclosed. Google does not disclose information to third parties without your permission. ”


This is a “condition and symptoms” dialog that includes the auto-fill feature, as in the other Google Health input fields.


"Services and medical indications"


Tab with contraindications.


Completed procedures.


Test results (analyzes).


Immunization data.


Personal data.


Family history.


Window adding physicians / organizations.

The topic raised in the article is extremely important. In the near future we will be surrounded by a whole bunch of convenient services that will greatly facilitate our lives. But at the same time, for the functioning of these services, we will have to part with a significant amount of private information. The hour is not far when it will be possible, as in science fiction films, in a couple of minutes, with appropriate access rights, to get absolutely complete information about a person. Are you ready for this?

Sources:

• First Google Health Screenshots @ blogoscoped.com by Philipp Lenssen
• Google and Microsoft's New York Times by Steve Lohr
• Screenshots of Google Health @ ZDNet by Garett Rogers
• Your Privacy Is An Illusion: A glimpse inside Google Health @ Valleywag by Mary Jane Irwin

I apologize for the poor translation of direct speech.