Google Flu Trends

It can be scary and overwhelming in a sense, but it can also be a good thing. The search engine Google knows a lot more about you than you think, like which United States state you're in. You can also search your input into a computer. Google has a new health initiative called Google Flu Trends which looks at the various health trends. Basically, they like to follow data about the flu. Recently, they started this with the thought that if there is a flu outbreak in the United States, where flu-related search terms are currently looked at might be the location. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doesn't think it's a crazy idea. They're working with Google on the project. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will also continue to rely on surveillance data from physicians, but it shows, once again, how with the Internet, input by various people, individuals, can have a big effect. For more information, click onto http://www.mymedicalreports.com/.