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Google's initiative puts it in company with Internet rival Microsoft Corp. and Revolution Health Group LLC, led by America Online Inc. co-founder Steve Case, in launching sites for users to fill out and manage online profiles that are known as personal health records. The companies are seeking to get in on the ground floor as more health practitioners begin digitizing records. President Bush has called for most Americans to have access to electronic medical records by 2014, because of the potential to reduce health-care costs and prevent medical errors.
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