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7:22 AM, 10 Jun 2008

AMA diagnoses Google Health reports

Abstracted from The Australian Financial Review


The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has advised that the privacy of medical records held overseas is not guaranteed. Google says it has no plans to launch its Google Health service in Australia, but Australians can use the portal to store medical information. The purpose of the platform is to improve assess to health records as patients move between health care providers, with information stored including age, height, medications, allergies, test results and medical procedures. AMA's council of general practice chairman, Rodney Pearce, said doctors will treat information held on sites such as Google Health in the same manner as hand-written notes by patients. The AMA has expressed a preference for a national electronic health record, such as the one being developed by the NEHTA

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