IBM, Google and Continua Health Announce Alliance for Personal Health Records

IBM (NYSE:IBM), in collaboration with Google and the Continua Health Alliance, announced software that will enable personal medical devices used for patient monitoring, screening and routine evaluation to automatically stream data results into a patient’s Google Health Account or other personal health record (PHR). According to the release, once stored in a PHR, the data can also be shared with physicians and other members of the extended care network at a user’s discretion.

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