I love Mayo Clinic website. I find it to be the best source for medical information on the web. It seems to be expanding its vision of online health as it opens a private medical data website similar to Google Health.
Mayo Clinic is the latest to offer a free, secure, online website for anyone — whether a patient or not — to store and organize medical information.
Such sites, also offered by Google Health and Revolution Health (started by former AOL Time Warner chairman Steve Case) are designed to replace the proverbial shoebox of medical documents kept at home.
Unlike some of its competitors, Mayo Clinic Health Manager will offer more than a place to organize medical data. It will also push out customized information, such as reminders for checkups, from one of the most respected brands in health care.
“In every family, there seems to be one person who keeps track of health info and figures out what to do,” said Dr. Sidna Tulledge-Scheitel, medical director for Mayo Clinic Global Products and Services Division.
On Mayo’s site, she said, “The more you enter, the more personalized the health care reminders and guidance there will be for each family member.”
Mayo Clinic is using Microsoft’s HealthVault software for the site.