Comments on: Why Google will never store your personal health information http://aaronmentele.com/2006/12/02/portable-medical-records-brought-to-you-by-google-no/ personal blog of Aaron Mentele, web developer and partner at Electric Pulp Fri, 09 Mar 2012 04:22:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: CureHunter http://aaronmentele.com/2006/12/02/portable-medical-records-brought-to-you-by-google-no/comment-page-1/#comment-23840 CureHunter Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:59:25 +0000 http://charisma18.com/2006/12/02/portable-medical-records-brought-to-you-by-google-no/#comment-23840 Just wanted to mention our patient activist and physician oriented Health Search startup "<a href="http://www.curehunter.com" rel="nofollow">CureHunter</a>". One of our main design goals is to bring patients and physicians closer to the research so they can make the most educated decisions possible and truly begin to practice Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) in real-time. ...without giving anyone your medical records! Please check it out if you get the chance. Just wanted to mention our patient activist and physician oriented Health Search startup “CureHunter“. One of our main design goals is to bring patients and physicians closer to the research so they can make the most educated decisions possible and truly begin to practice Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) in real-time.

…without giving anyone your medical records!

Please check it out if you get the chance.

]]> By: Andrew http://aaronmentele.com/2006/12/02/portable-medical-records-brought-to-you-by-google-no/comment-page-1/#comment-23505 Andrew Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:07:50 +0000 http://charisma18.com/2006/12/02/portable-medical-records-brought-to-you-by-google-no/#comment-23505 Yes, and won't they be happy when people start uploading pathology virtual slide images at 4-5GB per..... Yes, and won’t they be happy when people start uploading pathology virtual slide images at 4-5GB per…..

]]> By: Aaron Mentele http://aaronmentele.com/2006/12/02/portable-medical-records-brought-to-you-by-google-no/comment-page-1/#comment-15847 Aaron Mentele Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:12:07 +0000 http://charisma18.com/2006/12/02/portable-medical-records-brought-to-you-by-google-no/#comment-15847 Google is a contextual advertiser - they have a huge conflict housing health data. And removing personally-identifiable information doesn't bypass that conflict. Google would still recognize you and doesn't need your name to advertise to you. A contextual advertiser would never be allowed to be a credit bureau. It's no different. Google is a contextual advertiser – they have a huge conflict housing health data. And removing personally-identifiable information doesn’t bypass that conflict. Google would still recognize you and doesn’t need your name to advertise to you.

A contextual advertiser would never be allowed to be a credit bureau. It’s no different.

]]> By: Arnold Berkowitz M.D. http://aaronmentele.com/2006/12/02/portable-medical-records-brought-to-you-by-google-no/comment-page-1/#comment-15829 Arnold Berkowitz M.D. Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:31:32 +0000 http://charisma18.com/2006/12/02/portable-medical-records-brought-to-you-by-google-no/#comment-15829 I think a large company like Google (or a subsidiary created for this purpose) should be a repository for medical records, but to insure security all the patient names would be blanked out and replaced with coded passwords. Only the patient or authorized user would have the password so having a copy of the actual record would not have any identifying value. The passcode would have a checksum so that the wrong record could not be mistakenly retrieved. I think a large company like Google (or a subsidiary created for this purpose) should be a repository for medical records, but to insure security all the patient names would be blanked out and replaced with coded passwords. Only the patient or authorized user would have the password so having a copy of the actual record would not have any identifying value. The passcode would have a checksum so that the wrong record could not be mistakenly retrieved.

]]> By: Google vs your privacy at charisma:18 http://aaronmentele.com/2006/12/02/portable-medical-records-brought-to-you-by-google-no/comment-page-1/#comment-14799 Google vs your privacy at charisma:18 Fri, 25 May 2007 05:48:10 +0000 http://charisma18.com/2006/12/02/portable-medical-records-brought-to-you-by-google-no/#comment-14799 [...] already covered this topic in sufficient detail here, but seeing Google once again suggest that personal health data should flow to the consumer (by way [...] [...] already covered this topic in sufficient detail here, but seeing Google once again suggest that personal health data should flow to the consumer (by way [...]

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