Google unveils personal medical record service, claiming that it would bring more control of medical records to patients by providing centralized facility to control oneself records. In other terms, we would be able to login to that service and have a look in our medical records. So why would we need to look at our own medical records. The first thing that strikes me of course is who else could have a look at my own medical record. Google said, it would be password protected. How strong would that password be? It is up to each one of us to choose. Are we going to get alarmed if someone tries to brute-force our medical history records?
The advantage of this service, according to Google would be the central storage of now dispersed data. And Google promise not to use any advertising on accessing medical records, but when people do some other medical related searches.
Whenever I visit my doctor and get prescription I am wondering how pharmacist is able to decrypt those scribbles where hardly any letter could be identified. I frankly prefer that it stays like this, and that medical data is managed by those that need access to it, and it definitely not patients but medical service.
What does search engine has to do with storing and managing information? Give me please just one good reason…