Google and Ann Arbor-based UNIVAL partner up for online medical records database
Ann Arbor-based UNIVAL Inc., has hooked up with Google to help roll out Google Health, a service that allows users to store, organize, and manager their health records online.
Scanning in pages of documents doesn’t separate information or make it user friendly and searchable. Google and UNIVAL are changing that by launching Google Health. Through Google, UNIVAL will input, interpret, and organize that data making health records more assessable.
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Consumers are not staying with the same health care provider long term anymore either, said Allison Halerz, administrator of marketing services. “So when you change providers, this helps ensure the patient doesn’t get lost; they can take this with them,” she said.
What sets their company apart from similar services, said Ron Fernandez, director of IT, is that while others may scan medical documents into a database, UNIVAL interprets and organizes the data before posting it.
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