Thursday, August 16, 2007

Health by Google?

Google has ambitious plans in expanding its easy-to-use applications to Google Health. One thing that concerns me is the potential for harvesting of personal medical data.

Google can't be 100% attack-proof, no matter how security-conscious they are. So I'd expect that eventually a hacker would break into at least some people's health information.

Also, you give a doctor access to your online profile (medical history, medicines, allergies, operations, symptoms, etc.). So do they get a one-time password entry or would you have to change your password after every such access (yuk!)?

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