The Google Health and the association of medical device makers along with other companies announced the creation of a software platform that allows medical data at-home devices such as glucose meters and blood pressure monitors to be sent automatically to Google Health or other Personal Health Record systems online.
This software platform will bring data portability and medical records interoperability in direct conflict with a huge industry entrenched in data. The Obama administration will pump billions of dollars into modernizing health care, and health care records, with this health software in the industry leaders are influencing the US government to advance the funding with necessities concerned with open data standards and interoperability.
The consortium's software platform is being announced today which would be an example to the technology that we would be seeing soon.
The highlights of the announcements were The Continua Alliance, made up of companies like Nokia, Intel and Panasonic, along with IBM and Google who revealed certain factors. In us and around the world this technology can be used in a wide variety of case types which includes the chronic disease management, health and wellness, and elderly care.
