Enter another handy feature in Google's platform for ushering in the age of digital medical records: Google Health now supports scanned document uploads for attaching various parts of your health care-related paper trail to your central storehouse of medical data. Bills or receipts, insurance forms, prescriptions, and other miscellaneous medical records can now be housed within your Google Health account; Google suggests an "advance directive" form containing your end-of-life wishes would be one of the more critical documents to upload for your family and doctor to be able to access in case of emergency.

Another recently added feature is permissions-based access to the documents in your account, which touches on one of the major concerns with the digitization of medical records: security. Google indicates the security of your records is one of its top priorities in this initiative, which stands to benefit many greatly through centralization and designated access to a repository of your health history as your physical location and physicians may change over your lifetime.

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