The National Cyber Security Alliance has added Google to its board of directors. The announcement comes as Google’s health division has increased activity this summer to protect patient rights. Google Health in June endorsed an industry-wide Declaration of Health Data, launched by HealthDataRights.org to protect patients’ electronic health data, and partnered in July with the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization to launch an online living will program. Google faces competition in the patient rights arena from Microsoft’s HealthVault PHR technology platform, launched in 2007 and endorsed by the Patient Privacy Rights Foundation. Microsoft is already on the NCSA board of directors, along with Cisco, McAfee, EMC, SAIC and Symantec.
