Google lobbys on behalf of PHR (@ Healthcare IT News)
WASHINGTON – According to first quarter federal reports, Google participated in lobbying efforts aimed at allowing the sale of electronic medical records in the economic stimulus legislation.
This contradicts the Internet giant's earlier response to Consumer Watchdog, a California-based, non-profit consumer education and advocacy organization, that their claims against Google were "100 percent false."
Consumer Watchdog reported the "rumored" lobbying in January and charged that Google was pushing for the provisions so it could sell patient medical information to its advertising clients on the new "Google Health" database. Google responded by contacting the Rose Foundation, a charitable foundation in California, about withdrawing Consumer Watchdog's funding.
