Walgreens and Google to Provide Patient Access to Prescription History
Posted on: Tuesday, 20 May 2008, 15:00 CDT
Walgreens has partnered with Google to provide pharmacy patients access to their personal prescription history through Google Health, a new product that was launched to help users store, organize and manage their medical records online.
Google Health claims to complement the patient history currently available on Walgreens.com and will help patients and doctors get the most benefit from the patient's drug therapy.
The Walgreens.com pharmacy is integrated with Walgreens retail pharmacies, ensuring the patient's online prescription history is complete. Once a patient requests the service, Walgreens will securely transfer an updated copy of their prescription history to Google Health on a daily basis.
Don Huonker, Walgreens senior vice president of health care innovation, said: "While many patients use Walgreens online pharmacy to access their prescription history, they don't always provide that information to their doctor.
By partnering with Google Health, we can securely link a patient's Walgreens.com pharmacy information with their Google Health account on their request. This will make it easier for patients to communicate their information to multiple doctors and their caretakers, who can be granted access to their Google Health account with the patient's permission when the feature is enabled in the near future."
Source: Datamonitor
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