3HealthVault is Microsoft’s offering to provide consumers with a central, secure, online repository for their personal health information.
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Microsoft’s HealthVault
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I have noticed a lot of talk in the news and blog media around Microsoft’s new entry into the consumer healthcare market, HealthVault. The goal of HealthVault is to provide consumers with a central, secure, online repository for their personal health information. Not only is HealthVault a consumer-oriented storage application, it is also a platform through which consumers can link to participating healthcare applications and devices. For example, the HealthVault service is compatible with a number of 3rd-party health and wellness devices including diabetes management, blood glucose, blood pressure, and heart monitoring devices. Connect and upload your latest results to your HealthVault account! It is also possible to “share” one’s HealthVault account in order to improve communication with doctors, upload electronic prescriptions and results and share with partner websites. I haven’t reviewed HealthVault in any detail but you can find a great series of articles over at HealthCare IT, starting here.
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Two kinds of comments from the people I talk to: Positive and Negative
1. Healthvault is a big joke — a company like Microsoft should not rush out with a product or service in such poor quality. It is half baked and not really usable at this time. The feeling for this announcement is only for Microsoft marketing purpose and shows the immaturity and weakness of Microsoft plan in dealing with consumer health care issue.
2. Healthvault brought a great vision — whatever you see in this beta release is the beginning of a grand vision. It is a great leadership played by Microsoft to bring in many software and hardware companies together to serve the goal: consumer empowerment. With the resource (including talent) that Microsoft possesses and gaining idea from public comments, they are going to create another great opportunity in health care domain.
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