The Seven Stones

Google Health, Biomedical Mutual Organizations and Open Consent

Google Health, the new service offered by Google is now online (via bbgm, Life as a Healthcare CIO, GTO). This service helps users to store, organize and share their health profile and medical records, to use a variety of health-related online services and to search for medical information. Understandably, Google places great emphasis on data security and confidentiality. In this regard, I thought it might be worth highlighting several recent and thought-provoking discussions around the issues of data privacy and participative medical investigations. In a provocative editorial (Bains, 2007, see also Nature Medicine News article), William Bains advocates that collectives 

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