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Google's online filing cabinet for medical records opened to the public Monday, giving users instant electronic access to their health histories while reigniting privacy concerns.

Called Google Health, the service lets users link information from a handful of pharmacies and care providers, including Quest Diagnostics labs. Google plans to add more.
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25 responses // Google opens medical records to the public!

  • Amazing how your dentist isn't allowed to give dental records to your mom if you're over 18, but Google can release them online. Awesome.
    abbym0308
  • I don't know if I like my medical records that open. All it takes is a simple hack to know my medical history.
    JDM_Jelani
  • How can this be legal?

    stardate
  • Google is a monster fear google!
    wwwthisisbetterws

  • lol...agreed
    Meaghan1126
  • watch this comment being used here, here, here, here, here and here
    Beautiful... yet another way for somebody to steal your identity, except this time they get to know all about that wrist you broke in elementary school.
    clarity_kat
  • This does not bode well. Too many hackers can make this a nightmare.
    huntre
  • This is insanely silly! How can I take my information off? I had to file ridiculous paperwork to get my telephone information off the site! Now I have to do it again for my medical history. I already know my past medical history who else needs easy access to it?!?! Will Mr Bush's be there? Then why should mine?
    eleese22
  • Can't wait to see John McCain's records up there.
    gabodido
  • Google.org is taking over the world!
    ivxx
  • Under what special interest does this fall into. Does google not know the difference between public and private: where is the financial backing coming from and who is on top? That info should be featured along the phone numbers and email addresses.
    yappalonia
  • Ok, I completely understand the privacy concerns - I have them myself.

    Then again, when you are in the hospital and they ask if you have any medication allergies, and there's that thing that made you hallucinate when you were a kid, but you don't remember the name...then it might be pretty nice to hop online and there's that info, right there for you.

    Which is worth more, convenience or privacy concerns?
    Tori
  • http://www.google.com/health/html/privacy.html
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    ok, I'm reading the Google Health privacy policy and having a hard time figuring out specifically what they have the right to do w the info in google health. i see that the info you submit to google health is not protected by HIPAA. but im not sure what that means given my reading of their privacy policy. this seems to be the money quote of the policy:

    "Google will not sell, rent, or share your information (identified or de-identified) without your explicit consent, except in the limited situations described in the Google Privacy Policy, such as when Google believes it is required to do so by law."

    but when clicking through to the Google Privacy Policy ( http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html#inform... ) it seems pretty benign, eg:

    "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....
    If Google becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, we will provide notice before personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy."

    can someone more specifically outline the immediate privacy concerns?
    regina
  • You guys, read the article! Google is not just taking everyone's medical records and putting them online for everyone to see! It's an opt-in service - in other words, if you choose to place records online, you may do so, but they will NOT be available to the public or show up in Google's search results.

    The idea is to make it easier to share medical information between your medical providers - that is, only people that you authorize to access your information would be able to do so.

    There are some legitimate privacy concerns that can and should be raised, but take a breath. This is not what you think...
    Blazesboy
  • oh my god Google is taking over my life, AAHHH Goooogggllleeee is Big Brother AHHHHH Gooooogle is going t o make my head explode AHHHHH *&$^@*%^
    stephenthomson
  • ps i just logged into google health and checked out STEPHENTHOMSON...dont worry about what he is saying. his records show that he has a history of mental illness. thanks google!!


    :)
    regina
  • Regina...I would like to more about the privacy info. in laymans terms also. Who would actually have access?
    cibalin
  • Who let this happen?
    ILiveonaClock
  • Google is a great example of when a good thing goes bad. Someone in their thing tank should have phrased the word "why" in a question when whomever came up with the egregious idea did.
    UWAZell
  • Google's pivacy measures are only going to keep honest people honest. If somebody wants to find out your stuff they can goolgle health or not.
    papamikemiller
  • who's to stop the government and others with malicious intent from this access? ease of use is not always the best selling point...
    fighttheNWO
  • i don't really find it all that weird or disturbing. i work in a clinic that uses EMR and we are able to communicate with other hospitals and send labs and records back and forth easily which is super helpful and a lot less wasteful.
    jarratt
  • ok i just went to google to try this health thingy and people with comments against it are idiots! cause only you can access your own records by haveing gmail acount so its accautly really good so yea research before you speak
    hawkdidy
  • and you also must upload your own records witch i just realized
    hawkdidy
  • This just in: Hacker Field Day Declared (by Google).
    derk

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