Cleveland Clinic announced last week that it is collaborating with the Google search engine company to pilot features and services of a new health offering. Google Health, not yet publicly available, will assist providers to create a new kind of healthcare experience that puts patients in charge of their own health information.
Cleveland Clinic already has an electronic personal health record (PHR) system called eCleveland Clinic MyChart®. The pilot, an invitation-only opportunity offered to a group of Cleveland Clinic PHR users, plans to enroll between 1,500 and 10,000 patients. It will test secure exchange of patient medical record data such as prescriptions, conditions, and allergies between their Cleveland Clinic PHR to a secure Google profile in a live clinical delivery setting. The ultimate goal of the model is to give patients the ability to interact with multiple physicians, healthcare service providers, and pharmacies. Read the press release.
