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SPOTLIGHT: EHR has issues, but they are not insurmountable
The Boston Globe recently had an article about Google Health highlighting the problems with the information found in the one man's health record. Letting Google give you a window into your health record represents a huge opportunity for patients to track and control their own health information, but leaving such sensitive information on the server of a company as visible as Google could also raise a whole host of privacy issues. FierceContentManagement
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