As reported by the Associated Press, Google will announce the pilot project of its Google Health service later today. Google will start by storing medical records of a couple thousand people, namely 1500 - 10000 patients from the Cleveland Clinic who volunteered to participate in the program.
Health profiles of individual patients will not be open to the general public and they will be protected by passwords, but this won't stop web privacy skeptics (including us) to raise concerns about Google owning data on just about every aspect of our lives. Remember our article titled "My Soul, and 10 Other Things that Google Owns?" Well, time to add medical records to the list.
Google declined to comment on the project, so consider all this very unofficial. However, AP got the info directly from Cleveland Clinic, a not-for-profit medical center which is obviously less worried about spreading this kind of info than Google.