I read today first on LinuxMedNews that Google Health has launched.
Upon accepting the additional Google Health agreements for my Google Account, I was shown a list of eight partners where I could link up to for importing data. Nice for now, I want MORE. I easily linked my Walgreens prescription info thereby adding that part of my medical history. Which it still hasn’t done quite yet as of writing this. I highly doubt State Fund Insurance Compensation (SCIF) will ever become a partner, if they do I can only forsee good coming of it. I am also populating some other fields too as I write.
I am very impressed with the quality of the interface for adding basic health information, like height, weight, blood type along with Conditions, Medications, Allergies, Test Results, and Immunizations. It is quite clean and is a perfect example of what I’ve come to expect from Google.
Now for the fault. There is no way for a person to their own documents, records and images to the system. Not too sure how much use I will really get out of the Google Health platform until that roadblock has past. But even then it’s a good start with what information it can collect. I’d like to see something where a person could scan their document and then batch upload the images to Google for Optical Character Recognition or other processing.
TechCrunch has a more thorough image filled post if you’re interested.
Seeing that they want to host all of my data, it would be nice if I could some how link my Google Calendar which has all of my thousands of appointments and such, so that I can be easily reimbursed for mileage somehow. Maybe with the Google AppEngine? /me wishes he could sit down, then functionally design and build such a thing.
