Archive for October, 2008

Keeping Your Own Health Chart, Online

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

The New York Times has a piece today that features the Zuri, Healthvault, and Google Health:

Keeping Your Own Health Chart, Online

The article discusses a number of uses for this kind of combined (medical device plus PHR) functionality.  Besides the obvious, it's interesting that clinical trial matching (TrialX) is also mentioned.

User control of on-line health information has many hurdles to overcome.  Even with adequate security:

First, however, patients will have to become comfortable placing medical data like readings from home tests online.