Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Joins Forces With Google Health

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) is expanding options for users of its secure PatientSite portal by joining forces with Google to offer a new way to safely exchange medical records and other health data through Google Health, which launched to the public today at a media event at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA. “We believe that patients should be the stewards of their own data,” says John Halamka, MD, BIDMC’s chief information officer.

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Filed under: IT / Internet / E-mail on May 22nd, 2008