Google Health gains partners

CNet reports Google Health gains partners:

Google is moving forward in the booming health care technology market.

The search giant this week announced several new partnerships designed to expand its free Google Health service.

Google Health is the company's attempt to offer an online medical portal where you can research medical conditions and issues, find doctors and health care professionals, and track down other health-related Web sites. You can also compile and store a health profile by adding test results, names of medications, insurance information, and electronic medical records from your computer or from third-party partners.

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Additionally, Google is teaming up with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Citizen Memorial Healthcare (CMH), and Iatric Systems. Patients who use these providers will now be able to link their Google Health accounts to retrieve and organize their medical records.

Huh, interesting. With their relationships with Mayo and Cleveland Clinic, Microsoft’s HealthVault looked to have leading momentum in the public EHR space, but I guess we can’t count out Google quite yet.