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Health information and bit literacy
In Bit Literacy, Chapter 10 (page 124, if you have a copy) talks about the inevitability of technology companies wanting very much to mediate our access to our own health record. I propose a simple (and private) text file called " health".
And so it begins... this NYT article reports that the Google and Microsoft are gearing up. Surely they'll be offering more than health records - but now's the time to get comfortable managing your own bits.
It is too soon to know whether either Google or Microsoft will make real headway. Health care, experts note, is a field where policy, regulation and entrenched interests tend to slow the pace of change, and technology companies have a history of losing patience.
And for most people, typing an ailment into a Web search engine is very different from entrusting a corporate titan with personal information about their health.
