Google’s latest health announcement last week has made headlines in the evolution of Health 2.0. This latest post on The Health Care Blog brings up the point that consumers might not be as interested in having online personal health records.
Keith goes on to mention that only 3% of patients actually keep a personal health record online, so how useful will it be? Online records of medical history remains industry-driven and not consumer driven, and consumers will only see the value of this service when the shift occurs to a consumer-driven industry. Patients are not ready to have this much control of their personal records, Google will have to slow down the process to get patients accustomed to having access to all their personal records.
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