Google now integrating its own Google Health service into your search results

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Thanks to a tip from Stuart we learned Google Health is now being integrated into health search results. For instance, if you Google search "hay fever," the top search result is Google Health. The health content is provided by A.D.A.M., an online provider of health content that is physician reviewed for consumers.

Taking the number one spot for themselves, Google is making their move to be the source where consumers get their online health information and potentially dominate health search. I guess if you're Google, organic search results are whatever you want them to be.

It appears Google's strategy in tying health search results with its Google Health product, is to be the top dog of consumers electronic medical records systems. There are other contenders, such as Microsoft's HealthVault for instance, so this is certainly going to shape up to be an interesting power struggle to say the very least.

About Google Health
Google Health is an online medical record system where you store your health information using your Google account. You can build your health profile and import your medical records from hospitals and pharmacies. You can also share your health records with others in your online care network. Google's privacy policy states they won't sell your health information or make it accessible through searches on Google.com (that's nice to know) and only the user controls access to their health information.

Thanks Stuart!

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