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An interesting article from the Washington Post is available here titled “New Ways to Manage Health Data“. It’s a great introduction to the foundation of the debate over putting Personal Health Records (PHRs) online. There’s been a lot of controvery lately after Google announced it would be entering the race to put our health records online.

Lately, Internet giants Microsoft and Google have upped the ante, developing sites that combine PHRs with search engines and other services. … The new capabilities raise the value of PHRs — as well as the risk from breaches of privacy. And as the records sites grow in number and sophistication, privacy advocates are stepping up their warnings, especially about PHRs offered by health insurers.

There are serious issues of security and how these PHR’s would be controlled and transferred between providers and repositories that warrant further debate.