Google Health gets IBM backing
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You seem to be turning Big Blue
Thursday, 5 February 2009, 14:36
GOOGLE signed on to a software product created by IBM and the Continua Health Alliance. The software takes data from health monitoring devices, such as blood sugar meters for diabetics, and share it with the patient in the Google Health file.
In a press release, Google said that IBM has made the data easy to access on its Google Health system. The search outfit wants to digitise health records and plans to stick all the information in a medical records service called HealthVault. µ
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A database of everyone's medical conditions, a database of who is doing research on drugs and techniques. And google having the link for the data. They can then do some proper "viagara" type gmails to customers from the drugs companies targetting people who already have the illnesses. Or they can ask the patients if they want to volunteer for trials, or help fund a drug for their condition.