Comments on: Google Health To Create The Personal Health Record? http://searchengineland.com/google-health-to-create-the-personal-health-record-11713 Search Engine Land: News On Search Engines, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Fri, 25 May 2012 17:45:00 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Seth Finkelstein http://searchengineland.com/google-health-to-create-the-personal-health-record-11713/comment-page-1#comment-3274 Seth Finkelstein Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:24:42 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/beta/google-health-to-create-the-personal-health-record-11713.php#comment-3274 I'm skeptical. This sounds like something that's made-for-hype. Health records have MAJOR MAJOR legal hassles involved with them, and large liabilities. As well as enormous turf-wars from the various insurance companies. That's *why* there is no global repository. The only way there will be a central repository in the US is if the US government mandates it. Which I think is very unlikely. I’m skeptical.

This sounds like something that’s made-for-hype.

Health records have MAJOR MAJOR legal hassles involved with them, and large liabilities. As well as enormous turf-wars from the various insurance companies. That’s *why* there is no global repository.

The only way there will be a central repository in the US is if the US government mandates it. Which I think is very unlikely.

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