“Vacationing in exotic Morocco, you fall and break your arm on one of the shady streets of Casablanca’s Old Quarter. Speaking neither French nor Arabic, you are desperate to inform the doctors at the nearest hospital that you are diabetic and due for insulin any minute, along with concerns about your allergies to several common medications and materials such as penicillin and latex.
The attending physician has nothing to go on but your passport and an Internet connection — and that’s more than enough. Before prescribing or treating you, she pulls up a medical dossier that contains all pertinent information, including a calendar of necessary treatments and all the medication you’ve ever taken.”
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Carl Brooks, SearchCloudComputing, 2 December 2009
