See all those ‘blue letters’ they don’t print.
In the hope that someday it might save me or my family some time (or maybe my life) I have been entering medical data into GH the past year or so.
Yesterday my wife has a doctor appointment and I went to health.google.com and logged in. I reviewed the data. It was easy to read online. I decided to print it and take it with us to the appointment.
As usual when going to the doctor one is rushed, so I clicked on the pdf tab and print and walked off. As I was running out the door and driving to the doctor I glanced at the print out. Much of it was blank, and'/or unreadable.
Now you may ask why. Why? Because Google was intent on making a ‘pretty display’ of basically boring data. So a great deal of it was in color, blue to be exact, which does not print at all on B&W printers (which many people have if they use a laser printer, or more likely a deskjet of MFP which has an empty color cartridge (which mine did ). I will bet you a buckwheat that most people have an empty color cartridge (because they are too expensive, and not really needed 95% of the time.
So Google if you are listening and not busy searching, please fix your Health web site so it is not useless for many people.
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