I see tremendous opportunities in transforming worldwide healthcare using web and mobile technologies. It can make real difference to many people in the world that do not have access to proper healthcare.
Sometime ago google launched google health to help organize your heathcare information and make it accessible anywhere. This is constent with their mission of organizing world’s information and making it universally accessible and useful. Obvously there are important privacy related issues, but giving users control of their health information is useful. I don’t know if people will be comfortable with giving google their heathcare information. This remains to be seen.
Today google announced an initiative in partnership with IBM that lets you upload your health information to google health directly from medical devices. They want to make it very easy for you to store and track your healthcare information. This is one more step in that direction.