Google Health is looking to revolutionize online health care. As recently as March, the service allowed you to share your medical history with family members or close friends.
Now, the service has launched a new feature allowing you to upload scanned paper documents into your Google Health account. Specifically, Google suggests that you scan and upload an “advance directive”, which specifies your exact wishes so that your family members can honor them if you become sick and are unable to communicate with them.
Google Health is now partnering with advance directive provider Caring Connections to provide a free form customized for all 50 states. Just download the document, print it, complete it, scan it, and shoot it right back to Google Health.
One of the most important documents you may want to store and share in Google Health is an “advance directive.” An advance directive allows you to determine your end-of-life wishes so that your family and doctor can honor them if you get sick and are unable to communicate. The decision to sign an advance directive is an important and personal one, and Google Health now makes it a little bit easier. Google Health is now working with a leading advance directive provider, Caring Connections, that provides a free, downloadable form customized for all 50 states. To complete your form, download it, print it out, complete it, scan it, and upload it to Google Health. Once you’ve uploaded the signed form, Google Health makes it easy to share it with your caregiver.
Now, isn’t it comforting to know that your final wishes are in the hands of Google? Yeah, we thought so.
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