http://www.ihealthrecord.com/ 

What Guarantees are there that some other companys are not tapping into your personal information?

Or hackers stepping in and giving you a terminal disease?

Hog

why use it?

it's not a matter of myself or any individual using it.. it's a matter of the push from the Government to have this information Online from these Healthcare facilities...

Doctors are slow to go digital

Medical community feels the pressure to switch from paper to electronic records.

http://www.detnews.com/2005/health/0505/30/A09-190825.htm 

So I think in the near future it would just be a matter of you logging onto your account?? which will already be established by some medical facility??

Hog

You might want to check out their privacy policy (see lower part of page, left side) ... privacy and security are topics they've done something to address, though specifically what they've done isn't mentioned, so it's tough to know how effective that might be ... there ARE a number of different technologies available that they could be using, some of which are pretty doggone good ... it's encouraging to note that they use only session cookies ... while that's not exactly definitive, it's a very encouraging sign that they're doing more than just paying lip-service to the topics of privacy and security ...