Trendspotting for Libraries

Guess what Google’s up to now! They’re setting up a pilot project with the Cleveland Clinic to house patient medical records in a secure site on Google. Patients will be in charge of their own records, and can electronically transfer their own records if they change doctors or hospitals, etc. From the announcements I’ve read, it’s not clear to me if patients can use the Google search interface to search and interact with their own records.

Here’s a Seattle Times article on it, which addresses privacy concerns

Here’s a Wireless Healthcare article

Here’s the Cleveland Clinic’s own announcement

I couldn’t find a Google announcement.