Google Health Going Away

According to several news articles that popped up today, Google Health will be discontinued in January of next year.  What Google may or may not understand - is that the personal health record will not have widespread adoption until there is infrastructure that allows for information exchange between consumers/providers. 
http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/google-health-personal-health-records-discontinue-retire-phr-42690-1.html?ET=healthdatamanagement:e1856:144174a:&st=email&utm_source=editorial&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HDM_Daily_062711

Personal Health Record (PHR) Report Card

The Patient Privacy Rights group released a report card on five PHRs:

• CapMed-icePHR
  
• Google Health
  
• Microsoft Health Vault
  
• No More Clipboard
  
• WebMD
  
• PHRs offered by employers/insurers
  

You can read the report card at http://www.patientprivacyrights.org/site/PageServer?pagename=PHR_Report_Card

This information supplements chapter 14.