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Google Health: Personal Health Records Centralization Service

Discover Google Health, a personal health information centralization service discontinued in 2012, allowing users to import medical records, prescribe medications and share data with physicians and medical providers.

What is Google Health?

Google Health was a personal health information centralization service launched by Google in 2008. It allowed users to import their medical records, allergies, medications, and other health data from participating health services providers into a central Google Health profile.

Once the data was aggregated in the Google Health profile, users could share their health information with physicians, pharmacists, and other approved medical teams and professionals. This enabled medical providers to access a more holistic view of the patient's health when providing care.

Key features of Google Health included:

• Importing and consolidating medical records, medications, allergies, lab results, and other health data
• Sharing health profiles with approved physicians, caregivers, and medical teams
• Refilling medications and making appointments within Google Health
• Basic health monitoring tools for tracking weight, blood pressure, blood glucose, and cholesterol

Google Health aimed to create a centralized health profile for every user that could facilitate better collaboration and information sharing between patients and health providers. After failing to gain widespread usage and adoption, Google Health was discontinued in January 2012, with all data being deleted by January 1, 2013.

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