On Wednesday, Google unveiled a redesign of its personal health record service Google Health, which includes more user-friendly features that provide new data management controls for users and a greater focus on wellness and fitness, PC Magazine reports (Albanesius, PC Magazine, 9/15).
History
Google launched its PHR service about two and a half years ago to provide consumers with a platform to aggregate and organize their personal health information, including:
Aaron Brown — a senior product manager at Google — said that over the past several months, Google began looking at ways to improve the service to provide more than just PHR management capabilities.
Changes
Brown said the company conducted “a complete overhaul of the user interface” to make Google Health more intuitive to use (Miliard, Healthcare IT News, 9/15).
The new features include:
In a Google Blog post, Brown explained that the redesign offers better organization of medical information and more user-friendly access to daily check-ins (PC Magazine, 9/15).
Source: iHealthBeat
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