Google’s personal health record marches on

The federal government wants to build a national network for health data, but Google already has a nascent network in place in the form of its free personal health record called Google Health. Last week this private-sector network got a little bigger when Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts announced that its members will be able to import claims data into a Google Health account beginning this fall. The Bay State Blues is the first insurer to integrate electronically with Google, and it joins a growing list of other healthcare organizations—ranging from Walgreens Pharmacy to the Cleveland Clinic—that feed patient data into the Google PHR.

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