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You might have noticed how hard it is to obtain your own health care history. Most medical records are written on paper. This is changing, but slowly. Even forward-looking doctors, hospitals, and pharmacies who are converting to electronic records have a hard time integrating with each other, since each IT system is largely independent of other systems. What you, the patient, would like to see is all of your history together in one place, regardless of who the provider was or where the care was given.

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In Part 1 of this series of articles, I described the landscape of online Personal Health Records (PHR) and how they might benefit both the patient and the health care provider. In this article, I’ll dive into the feature set of one of the most prominent PHR implementations: Google Health. In Part 3 of the series, I’ll walk you through one approach to integrating Google Health into the SOA of a healthcare provider, using the BPEL engine provided in IBM WebSphere Process Server.

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