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Navigenics: The Experience

Posted in PHR, consumer health, tagged , , , on March 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Results are in from the Navigenics test and my sometime absent mindedness is unlikely to be caused from Alzheimer’s as I am at a very low risk of this disease, at least according to my genetic make-up.  Boy, do I feel better now. At the beginning of 2009, I announced that I would be participating [...]

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Fixing the Wellness Conundrum

Posted in consumer health, tagged , , , , on February 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »

My friends over at the Humana skunk-works CrumpleItUp (sure hope they aren’t paid in Human stock after yesterday’s rout, 24% drop – OUCH) put up an interesting post that takes a hard look at Wellness programs and why most fail miserably. Breaking down Wellness efforts into three models; traditional, heavy-handed top-down, specific games to encourage [...]

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Connecting to Health Coaches with Wii Fit

Posted in consumer health, telehealth, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 30, 2009 | 9 Comments »

The extremely popular Wii gaming system will begin connecting directly to health professionals in April.  It appears that this will be first offered in Japan combining the existing Wii Fit and Wii Balance devices with bi-directional online communication capabilities.  Moving beyond just providing the gaming devices and platform, Nintendo is partnering with NEC, Hitatci and [...]

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Cloud Computing in Healthcare, A Presentation

Posted in Dossia, Google Health, HealthVault, Microsoft, PHP, PHR, consumer health, health portals, tagged , , , on January 12, 2009 | 12 Comments »

Last Friday, had the opportunity to present to MITRE and their Healthcare Transformation group.  This MITRE group is responsible for developing LAIKA, the platform used by CCHIT to validate EMR solutions for certification.  Extremely bright group of engineers with some excellent ideas and many good questions over the course of my roughly 1hr presenation. Purpose [...]

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Might Real Value of Genetic Testing Lie Elsewhere?

Posted in PHR, tagged , , , , on January 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Yesterday’s post talked about my recent “plunge” into the world of genetic testing via participation in the Scripps-Navigenics study.  A comment by Microsoft HealthVault’s Chief Architect, Sean Nolan addressed one of my questions: Exactly what would be the data type that Navigenics would pass over into one’s HealthVault account?  Sean stated that it would be [...]

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Taking the Plunge: The Scripps-Navigenics Study

Posted in Microsoft, PHP, consumer health, tagged , , , , , , on January 2, 2009 | 6 Comments »

In early October, a joint announcement was made by the medical research institute Scripps, genetic testing company Navigenics, genetic testing instrument supplier Affymetrix and Personal Health Platform provider Microsoft HealthVault to conduct a 20 year study that will seek to determine if knowledge of one’s genetic pre-dispositions to diseases would change one’s behavior. Dr. Eric [...]

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HealthVault Adds Another Arrow to its Quiver

Posted in Dossia, Google Health, Microsoft, PHP, PHR, consumer health, tagged , , , on December 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Seemingly on a roll, OptumHealth, the consumer facing health and wellness division of United Health Group (UHG), the nation’s largest health insurer, announced yesterday that it will support health record portability by allowing members to export their Optum PHR data to HealthVault.  Basically, what this means is that any user of the Optum PHR (formerly [...]

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DoD Launches Pilot PHR, MiCare with Google & Microsoft

Posted in Dossia, EMR, Google Health, Microsoft, PHR, consumer health, tagged , , on December 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Last month, we posted on reports that the Department of Defense (DoD) was working with both Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault to provide military personnel and their families a PHR.  On Friday, the DoD formally announced the launch of MiCare, their PHR for beneficiaries.  MiCare will provide users with a pre-populated PHR that includes such [...]

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Cleveland Clinic & HealthVault Unite

Posted in Google, Microsoft, PHR, consumer health, tagged , , , , , , , , on November 10, 2008 | 5 Comments »

In an interesting twist, Cleveland Clinic and Microsoft’s HealthVault Grp announced a partnership this morning to address chronic disease management. The interesting twist is that Cleveland Clinic was the showcase beta customer for Google Health, which was announced by Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt earlier this year at HIMSS. Like their counterpart in Boston, Beth Israel [...]

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Interview with Adam Bosworth, formerly of Google Health

Posted in Microsoft, Privacy, consumer health, tagged , , , , , , , on August 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Adam Bosworth made quite a name for himself in the healthcare space while he was leader of the Google Health initiative. All got quite strange, however, when while on vacation late last summer, Bosworth decided not to return to Google Health. And while Bosworth went into stealth mode to develop Keas, Google chose not to [...]

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