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Steve Lohr
Google Offers Personal Health Records on the Web
Submitted by Benton Foundation on May 20, 2008 - 8:12amAfter a year and half of development, Google began offering online personal health records to the public on Monday. The Internet search giant’s service, Google Health, at google.com/health, is the latest entrant in the growing field of companies offering personal health records on the Web.
Pursuit of Yahoo Shows Microsoft Needs a Franchise
Submitted by Benton Foundation on May 19, 2008 - 7:48amTwo weeks after walking away from takeover talks with Yahoo, Microsoft made clear on Sunday that it still needed to create an Internet powerhouse that could rival Google -- and that its interest in Yahoo had not waned.
Microsoft Joins Effort for Laptops for Children
Submitted by Benton Foundation on May 16, 2008 - 7:07amAfter a years-long dispute, Microsoft and the computing and education project One Laptop Per Child said Thursday that they had reached an agreement to offer Windows on the organization’s computers.
Warning on Storage of Health Records
Submitted by Benton Foundation on April 17, 2008 - 7:33amIn an article in The New England Journal of Medicine, two leading researchers warn that the entry of big companies like Microsoft and Google into the field of personal health records could drastically alter the practice of clinical research and raise new challenges to the privacy of patient records.
