Keeping Your Own Health Chart, Online

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.

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