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Last Updated: May 5, 2009 - 12:58:27 PM |
ThUrSdAy FEB 21, 2008 (foodconsumer.org) -- Cleveland Clinic, a leading medical institution in health information technology, today announced collaboration with Google, the world's leading web search engine service provider to pilot features and services of a new health offering from Google.
The joint-ventured service has not yet been available to the public, but the Clinic said the Google system will assist medical service providers like Cleveland Clinic to create a new type of healthcare experience that puts the patients in charge of their health information.
Cleveland Clinic has already been using an electronic personal health record (PHR) system. But Cosgrove, M.D., President and Chief Executive Officer, Cleveland Clinic, and member of the Google Health Advisory Council, suggested that a new system would be helpful for both doctors and patients as they need more collaboration.
Initially, 1,500 to 10,000 patients will be invited to enroll in the new system to test secure exchange of patient medical record data such as prescriptions, conditions and allergies between their Cleveland Clinic PHR to a secure Google profile in a live clinical delivery setting.
In the end, it is hoped that the Google medical information service, which is free for both users and providers, could serve as a platform for patients to communicate any time with multiple doctors, healthcare service providers and pharmacies. And eventually, the pilot will enable patients anywhere using Cleveland Clinic's online patient service to take their data with them to any hospital out of the system.
"We believe patients should be able to easily access and manage their own health information," said Marissa Mayer, Vice President, Search Products and User Experience, Google, who did not forget to praise Cleveland Clinic for its online medical records service.
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