The 19.5 million residents of New York State will soon have access to heaps of their own health data — the results of every blood test, the details on every prescription — courtesy of a groundbreaking web portal that'll make obtaining medical records as easy as online banking. At least that's the promise of a state-backed initiative that hopes to set a precedent across the country.
Called "The Patient Portal for New Yorkers," the venture marks the first time a US state has tried to share comprehensive, digitized medical data, provided by doctors and hospitals, with patients. It's also an ambitious attempt to succeed where private efforts have largely failed: Google, for instance, last year shut down its own patient portal, Google...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/1/4289640/new-york-ehealth-patient-portal
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