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I just went through…

I just went through Google Health today for the first time and it seems easy to use however there are somethings that are missing that might be helpful to a physician. Those things include a patient’s past medical histories, their family history, and social histories, which we often take during our initial interview. It also seems like the database has no way to time and date notes associated with medical conditions except as “notes”.

But then I realized that Google was not trying to make a EMR for physicians but for patients to track their own conditions. However, if a patient came to the hospital with a google health file, it may not be as useful to physicians as initially thought.