Google Health bites dust.
According to an article in the New York Times, Google will discontinue Google Health, the personal health record portal that they began in 2008. Quoting from the blog post …
Now, with a few years of experience, we’ve observed that Google Health is not having the broad impact that we hoped it would. There has been adoption among certain groups of users like tech-savvy patients and their caregivers, and more recently fitness and wellness enthusiasts. But we haven’t found a way to translate that limited usage into widespread adoption in the daily health routines of millions of people. That’s why we’ve made the difficult decision to discontinue the Google Health service. We’ll continue to operate the Google Health site as usual through January 1, 2012, and we’ll provide an ongoing way for people to download their health data for an additional year beyond that, through January 1, 2013. Any data that remains in Google Health after that point will be permanently deleted.
Ok, so maybe this shouldn’t be a great surprise. Google is one of many other sites which allow people to manually record their data on web form. Compared to the other behemoth, Microsoft HealthVault, the interface is pretty slick.
Google Health, Summary Screen
