Googlified

Last week, Google announced that they have partnered with the Cleveland Clinic to integrate their Google Health platform with the clinic’s online medical records, making the patients’ more accessible. And today, they released two new screenshots of the beta service. The layout & content is similar to what we have seen when a series of screenshots was leaked online.

In a separate screenshot showing the login page, it included a logo of the St. Luke Hospital in Huston, Texas, which probably means that the hospital has also partnered with Google Health.

(Sweet, you can schedule an appointment online.)

It’s a bit odd that the search button is not for searching the user’s medical records, but search the web. I guess that they are still working on the searching functionalities.

Google Blogoscoped spotted that Google has enabled the login page for Google Health, an online health profiles manager that Google is going to launch in the coming months. Signing in the service will return a “Invalid request” message at this time.

Google Blogoscoped also obtained several leaked screenshots of Google Health last August.

Screenshots of the upcoming medical record management program Google Health, have been leaked to Google Blogoscoped. The project was previously code named under the names “M Scrapbook” (Medical Scrapbook) and Weaver.

The program lets you to add medical information, such as the medications you are taking, your allergies and family medical history to your Google Health profile and then they will create a health guide for you to learn more about the health problems you are having, if any, and the suggestive preventive measures and treatments you should be taking.

The Google Health Privacy Policy states that “Any information you enter will remain private. Google will not share it with anyone without your permission.” Also, a disclaimer says that “Be sure to discuss questions about your medical care with your doctor or medical provider before making changes.” and that Google Health is “built in collaboration with Safe-Med.com”.

Currently, http://health.google.com returns “Server not found” and http://google.com/health redirects to the Health section in Google Coop.

Kinda scary but I seriously wonder if Google is really “in bed with the CIA“.

[screenshot licensed under a CC-license by Philipp Lenssen]