Will Google Be Writing Prescriptions Next?

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 those devices to the web, IBM argues, will offer a new immediacy and granularity of health monitoring. A user can remotely track the blood pressure readings or glucose levels of a diabetic parent living alone, or stream his or her medical information like weight or heart rate directly to a doctor or physical trainer.

"If there's something abnormal, you can catch it before you have an episodic intervention, like going to the emergency room," says Dan Pelino, manager of IBM's health care division. "This is like OnStar for a patient, keeping constant information about you and sending alerts even before you have a problem."

Where does it stop?

We say, "Resistance is futile.  Prepare to be assimilated."

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