Tech giants back online health records standards

Courtesy CNET Tech blog  Wed, 06/25/2008 - 11:30pm

Microsoft and Google have joined a collection of insurers and health care providers in endorsing privacy standards intended to protect medical records stored online.

The new "Connecting For Health" guidelines, which are also intended to reassure people that storage of their medical records online is safe, aim to break the "

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