Google Beta Health is now live ,could it become a powerful portal for Third Parties?

Is Google good for your health records? Will have to wait to see

There are four basic categories to utilize: Your personal Health profile, Importing of medical records, Exploring online health services, and Doctor search.

CanadianEMR and OntarioMD contributed to the development of this video featuring Rural Ontario physician, which I believe tells a good story.
This video has been produced by Intel on EMR use in a practice in rural Ontario and has been published on the CanadianEMR web site’s home page.

Great!  India-Africa telemedicine link is established:

“He walks into a consulting room at Black Lion Hospital in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa and greets a doctor at the Care Hospital in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad.

Linked by a high-speed Internet connection, the doctors study X-rays and laboratory results.

Flipping between charts, they use light pens to point out important features. They can see each other in windows on their screens, while medical charts fill the rest of the display.

India launched this “telemedicine” project in Ethiopia last July at a cost of $2.13 million. The project links hospitals in Ethiopia with the Hyderabad-based Care Group of Hospitals, India’s leading cardiac institute.”

Read more  on  Canada.com

An excerpt: 

“Young women who leave home for university run higher risk for binge eating, study suggests.A study of University of Alberta students found that females in their inaugural year were three times more likely to binge eat if they had left their parental home to obtain post-secondary education”.

More details here

We’ve been using ginger in our culture for its medical purposes for years. It is used in most Indian gravy.Freshly finely chopped  ginger cubes is used in VennPongal  for its fragance and digestion.Good that it’s goodness is re-discovered on yahoo health for all others to know.More details on Yahoo.