Pulse Practice Solutions, Document Management, Document Scanning, EMR, Marketing & Managed IT for Medical Practices
  • News
  • Practice Solutions
    • Digital Faxing
    • Electronic Medical Records
    • Backfile Scanning Services
    • Document Management
    • Online Forms
    • EOB Data Capture and Processing
      • Automated EOB Processing Webinar
    • Managed IT Solutions
    • Telecommunications
    • Automated Appointment Reminders
  • Practice Marketing Services
    • Practice Identity Services
    • Logo Design
    • Practice Websites
    • Online Reputation and Social Media Management
    • Printing and Marketing Materials
      • Practice Stationery
      • Practice Presentation Folders
  • Partners
    • Software
    • Hardware
  • Contact Us

Google Health Revamp Includes New Features To Improve Usability

On Wednesday, Google unveiled a redesign of its personal health record service Google Health, which includes more user-friendly features that provide new data management controls for users and a greater focus on wellness and fitness, PC Magazine reports (Albanesius, PC Magazine, 9/15).

History

Google launched its PHR service about two and a half years ago to provide consumers with a platform to aggregate and organize their personal health information, including:

  • Medical records;
  • Prescriptions; and
  • Immunization and health condition data.

Aaron Brown — a senior product manager at Google — said that over the past several months, Google began looking at ways to improve the service to provide more than just PHR management capabilities.

Changes

Brown said the company conducted “a complete overhaul of the user interface” to make Google Health more intuitive to use (Miliard, Healthcare IT News, 9/15).

The new features include:

  • A revamped dashboard that merges health and wellness information to one location;
  • Capability to maintain notes and a journal about a specific health condition or medication;
  • The ability to remove or restrict access to old or outdated information (PC Magazine, 9/15); and
  • Tools to enter data from mobile devices into the dashboard (Healthcare IT News, 9/15).

In a Google Blog post, Brown explained that the redesign offers better organization of medical information and more user-friendly access to daily check-ins (PC Magazine, 9/15).

Source: iHealthBeat

Comments are closed.

Services

Follow us

Copyright 2015 - Pulse Practice Solutions | 615.425.2719

  • Go to top ↑