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Blue Cross offers link to Google Health

E-mail|Link|Comments (0) Posted by Elizabeth Cooney December 4, 2008 04:07 PM

As promised in June, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts members can now import their health records into Google Health, a free online portal for storing and organizing medical information from multiple sources.

Blue Cross says it is the first insurer to offer the password-protected service. Earlier this year Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center joined forces with Google Health to expand its online patient portal.

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Elizabeth Cooney is a former health reporter for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, where she also was a business reporter and an editor. Earlier in her career, she edited medical books and journals at Little, Brown, and worked for Boston magazine.