HealthSpace expansion plans shelved
The Department of Health has shelved plans for a massive expansion of its personal health record project, HealthSpace.
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Politicians question major IT projects
Opposition politicians are lining up to promise to scrap major IT projects as the full scale of the coming public spending squeeze becomes apparent. But home secretary Jacqui Smith has indicated that the government plans to press ahead with plans to store communications data and make it available to the emergency services, health and other […]
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Google Health now made for sharing
Google Health has unveiled a new feature of its online personal health record that allows users to share their medical details with doctors, carers or family members. The new features allow a user to elect to share either a summary or selected details of their record with chosen individuals. The sharing feature can subsequently be […]
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IBM teams with Google to mobilise patient data
New software to enable data to be easily moved from remote personal monitoring devices into Google Health personal health records announced.
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Google joins Continua e-health alliance
Google has joined Continua Health Alliance, the Intel-led international coalition working to develop standards to enable interoperable e-health products and services for the personal health market.
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Google Health launched
Internet search giant Google yesterday unveiled Google Health, its online personal health record service.
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Google CEO unveils Google Health
The veil came off the world’s worst-kept secret in healthcare IT Thursday, as Google chairman and chief executive Eric Schmidt announced the beta release of Google Health at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference in Orlando, Florida. For now, the product is limited to the US market, though Alfred Spector, Google […]
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Google Health unveils electronic record pilot
Google is piloting a system which lets patients transfer their existing medical information to its new online Personal Health Record.
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Google announces healthcare search clustering
Google has announced that people looking for healthcare terms on its front page will now have the option to see a list of reviewed links, and sort their results by treatment or symptoms. In Google Co-op, if users search for a particular symptom, illness or associated keyword on the main page of the site, they will […]
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