Google Health Enables Data Downloads

Google's privacy policy

From Google Health's privacy policy:

"We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures."

In other words, they can give your information to anyone they want. They're not bound by HIPPA. They don't have to have your consent to give your information to "trusted businesses or persons."

Richard of CA @ May 23, 2008 00:45:14 AM

Any Personal Medical Records can be Retrieved

As you point out, individuals can enter their own information on their Google Health profiles if their provider or insurer are not currently available on the platform. To do so, you need to first retrieve your personal medical records. You and everyone else who don't have their doctor or health provider yet as an integrated service on Google Health can use MediConnect Global--an integrated service on Google Health that can retrieve your medical records from any provider in the world and automatically gleans the information from your records to use on your profile. It's all done in a secure HIPAA compliant system. You can access MediConnect Global in the list under "Explore online health services" in Google Health. www.mediconnect.net

Cory of UT @ May 22, 2008 11:50:54 AM