Google will open analogue of service Microsoft HealthVault
Vice-president Google on search systems Marissa Mayer within the limits of conference Web 2.0 in San Francisco has informed that the company plans to open new service of a medical orientation.
To press in any details concerning the future service as informs ComputerWorld Mayer did not become. It is known only that users of service can load on servers on the Internet the information on a condition of the health and the case record, and also to exchange data with the attending physician. Will earn service presumably in the beginning of next year.
It is necessary to note that the application Mayer about intention Google to open medical service has sounded later only two weeks after Microsoft has started service HealthVault. The given service represents on-line storehouse in which users can accumulate the information of medical character. Into structure HealthVault enters integrated search engine and to load data on a site of service it is possible directly from the compatible medical equipment. Service HealthVault is free-of-charge, for the foreign companies and manufacturers corporation Microsoft offers the special means of development facilitating process of creation of devices, compatible to a new platform.
Considering that fact that for access to HealthVault corporation Microsoft does not raise any payment from users it is possible to assume as similar service Google will be free-of-charge. It is not excluded that on pages of service Google advertisements will be displayed.