Who Knows Your Business?: Your Digital Health Footprint

Thanks to the California Healthcare Foundation for this informative info-graphic on how third parties may be tracking your online activities.  Perhaps now's the time to reconsider Google's Incognito browsing option.

Google Unveils Calico

Search giant Google has launch a new health technology company, Calico, to focus on aging and aging-related diseases.  Calico will be run and operated separately and independently from Google, with Arthur Levinson, Chairman and former CEO of Genentech and Chairman of Apple, as Calico's CEO and founding investor.

This announcement may be surprising to those who remember the short-lived Google Health (2008-11) - a personal health information centralization service that allowed Google users to volunteer their health records in order to obtain a merged health record from Google. However Calico is not a consumer-driven endeavor but, rather, one of research and scholarship.

Calico's research aims to analyze the biological mechanisms behind aging. Levinson has stated that "much of that early research might be done by providing money to academic scientists, though Calico might also hire its own researchers."