Value of google health

Google health allows you to Organize your health information all in one place, gather your medical records from doctors, hospitals, and pharmacies, and share your information securely with a family member, doctors or caregivers.

Once you sign up, you can start creating a medical history profile of yourself, indicating diseases, doctors, treatments, etc. If you put all of your medications in, it will warn you if some of them aren’t supposed to be taken together. This one is actually quite valuable.

Their purpose is to give you a place online where all your medical information is stored, and where you can easily share it with anyone you wish to, such as another doctor whom you may go to for a consultation, without having to formally request your medical records again.

It’s neat and scary at the same time. You can add it to your current Google profile, if you have one, or you can create a new one if you don’t already have one. That part is neat; the part about worrying who might steal your password or hack your account, and thus get all this other information is the scary part. So once again, a good thing could potentially turn bad.

Hannah Herrick

Hannah’s HW for April 14th

I joined the social media group known as reddit.  Reddit is a social news website. Users have the option to submit links of content on the Internet or submit “self” posts that contain original, user-submitted text. The site has discussion areas in which users may discuss submissions and vote for or against other people’s comments (commonly known as up voting and down voting). When there are enough votes against a given comment, it will not be displayed by default.  The default preferences cut-off comments whose value is -4 or less, meaning they had received at least five more negative votes than they did positive votes. The user is given the option to change that in their preferences, as well as on each individual comment page. The appearance of submissions on the front page is determined by the age of the submission, positive to negative feedback ratio and the total vote count.