This is the same problem as with electronic voting systems. Someone, somewhere has to have the password. (Never mind all the ways that American electronic voting systems have screwed up in the past.)

By the way my medical history is exceedingly boring.

But just imagine, if it worked, it could be great:
http://www.in3.org/articles/gh2018best.htm

To me there’s another big problem. Getting information into the system. You need some sort of ‘import’ button, that can either load in some standard file format (there are already a few options for health information file formats, but most of them aren’t really directly accessible to the patient). Otherwise it seems like the initiative is on the patients to collect printouts and type in the info themselves, where the tendency for (both accidental and deliberate) error is fairly high.

I realise there is already an insignificant handful of health care providers listed that you can import from, but thats silly. You need a place where you can directly enter in some standard (like HL7) server name and patient id or something, and then everything just loads in.

On the other side, I can’t see doctors trusting the information stored within when its so easily modified by the patient themselves either.

Interesting idea but it won’t work. Strangely it seems Microsoft’s Health Vault concept has better support for using standards to easily integrate with existing systems that this google system.