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 [...]

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Google Health is taking strides to become the internet juggernaut of online health. In a blog post this morning, Google announced that CVS has just been added to its network of pharmacy partners.  Now, more then 100 million users can manage their prescription history online and import it into a central Google Health account. Having [...]

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While my feelings on the service are mixed, Google Health is taking some pretty advanced leaps ahead in technology when it comes to coordinating your medical records online. Today, Google announced that it is working with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on a pilot program in Utah and Arizona that will allow [...]

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I admit it.  So far, I’m not a big fan of Google Health. Why would I want a web search company to know my heart rate and the intimate details that make up my medical profile? Now, they have introduced another way you can send your sensitive medical data across the net, although, to be [...]

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Image via CrunchBase As if Google doesn’t already know everything there is to know about you, together with IBM, Google has launched a new Google Health initiative. This project will now be able to pull data directly from various medical devices such as  heart rate monitors, scales, blood-sugar measurement meters and so on. Hooking up [...]

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