Google Health

Sorry for the delay. The question has been posed: What do I think about Google Health?
In short, it will ultimately be useless. It's a great idea. But it will fail.
I think that Google Health will fail for two huge reasons. One: it relies on people to keep track of their health information. The average person in the United States doesn't do this to begin with. And it's not due to a lack of an easy, centralized system of record keeping, it is due to a lack of understanding of both health care issues and the health care system. 45% of Americans are unable to understand the instructions "take this medication with food". If this concept is rough, then keeping track of all their health information (most of which they don't understand anyway) will be impossible.
The second reason (and the biggest reason) why I think Google Health with be ultimately useless is that it depends on physicians to utilize the system. Physicians are busy. Really busy. They don't have time to use both their own in house record keeping system (the one mandated by law) and an outside system. And, ultimately, it would be highly unethical (if not illegal) for a physician to post a patients information on Google Health because THEY CAN"T CONTROL WHO SEES IT. This is very similar to installing a neon sign on the roof of your office that reads "Lawsuits Welcome!" . So unless Google is willing to put up the money and lawyers to deal with the HIPPA implications of posting patient information online, it won't happen.
So in conclusion, I believe Google Health is just another useless way for Google to say "look at how shiny we are".