It’s not “Star Trek” and Dr. “Bones” McCoy’s tricorder sensor, but it is one step closer to where no medical patient has gone before; the ability to stream his or her vital signs from a health monitoring device to a computer, thanks to a partnership announced Thursday by IBM and Google. IBM’s new software will work with Google Health, the search giant’s free online medical record database announced last summer. Soon, a patient will be able to send data on heart rate, blood pressure and other medical information from their homes or doctor’s offices to their Google Health accounts.
