Google Inc. today announced an online repository where consumers can store their health information , a move that could boost the nation's fledgling efforts to adopt electronic medical records.

With the Web service, called Google Health, consumers will be able to enter their own basic medical data and invite their doctors to electronically send information that would be stored by Google.

George Scriban, product manager, consumer health platform for Microsoft said that they are trying to create an industry and are humble in the face of how big this is.