Google’s recent announcement that it is creating a home for personal health records online is a natural outgrowth of Silicon Valley’s Web 2.0 consumer Internet focus. The question this raises is whether a market-driven system is better for keeping health records than one run by the government. Groups like the World Privacy Forum worry that initiatives like Google’s might threaten privacy because tech companies “are not subject to the HIPAA health privacy rule.”
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Health 2.0: A Promising Prescription
Posted by: Sonia Arrison March 7, 2008 04:00 AMGoogle’s recent announcement that it is creating a home for personal health records online is a natural outgrowth of Silicon Valley’s Web 2.0 consumer Internet focus. The question this raises is whether a market-driven system is better for keeping health records than one run by the government. Groups like the World Privacy Forum worry that initiatives like Google’s might threaten privacy because tech companies “are not subject to the HIPAA health privacy rule.”