Quite a big splash was made by Microsoft when it announced that it was opening itself up by publishing specifications to much of its source code to promote interoperability. Sean Nolan, chief architect for HealthVault, made an announcement similar to this which I referenced in a post on the implications of this move by Microsoft. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’
How Open is Open? or Did I Speak to Soon?
Posted in Microsoft, tagged CeBIT, HealthVault, Microsoft, Open on March 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Enough About the Gorillas, How About a Lemur
Posted in consumer health, Google, Microsoft, PHR, telehealth, tagged Google, HIMSS, Microsoft, speech pathology, telehealth, TinyEye on March 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Plenty has been written, both here and elsewhere about the two 800-pound gorillas, Google and Microsoft’s, respective plays in the consumer healthcare sector. Yes, what they are doing is extremely important to this industry and will change the healthcare industry in ways we have yet to imagine, but let’s giving this story some breathing room, [...]
Good Post on Google & Microsoft Platforms
Posted in consumer health, Google, Microsoft, PHR, tagged AHIMA, Google, health, HealthVault, Microsoft, PHR on March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Vince, over on his e-Care Management blog has a good post up today where he compares the respective consumer healthcare platforms from Microsoft (HealthVault) and Google Health. Bottom line for Vince is that there are more similarities than differences between these two initiatives and that consumer engagement will be their collective top challenge. Certainly agree [...]
Microsoft Comes Clean on Privacy
Posted in consumer health, Google, Microsoft, PHR, policy, Privacy, tagged Google, Microsoft, PHR, Privacy on February 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Little over a week ago I had a post that discussed the recent release of the World Privacy Forum report on PHRs. In that particular post I hit Microsoft pretty hard for not extending their tight privacy policies to the numerous partners that were signing on to HealthVault. I based that comment on a conversation [...]
Google’s Schmidt Outlines Health Platform
Posted in consumer health, Dossia, Google, health portals, Microsoft, PHR, PHS, tagged Google, health, HealthVault, HIMSS, Microsoft, PHR on February 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Though Google announced the formal unveiling of their PHR last week, via the deal with Cleveland Clinic, today was the true coming out event when Google CEO Eric Schmidt formally introduced Google Health to the throngs at HIMSS during his keynote. Based on the demo I received at HIMSS, conversations I have had and comments [...]
HIMSS – Part Deux
Posted in consumer health, Google, Microsoft, PHR, PHS, tagged ActiveHealth, Aetna, Agfa, eHealth, Google, HIMSS, ICW, LifeSensor, Microsoft, nomoreclipboard, PHR, RelayHealth, Sun, WebMD on February 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Back home from my two day whirlwind tour of HIMSS. Here’s what I have for you from Day Two. Significantly slower on Tuesday, though it did pick up later in the afternoon. So was everyone out playing golf or hanging out by the pool before the rain set in, or were they at one of [...]
Microsoft Openness Follows with Open Checkbook
Posted in PHR, tagged HealthVault, Microsoft, PHR on February 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today at HIMSS, Microsoft announced the establishment of the HealthVault Be Well Fund. Microsoft will provide $3M in seed funding for developers to build apps that will leverage the HealthVault environment. While the announcement lists six specific areas for which Microsoft is seeking proposals, they have left the door open and will consider others as [...]
With Merger, Is WebMD Now in Play?
Posted in consumer health, Google, health portals, Microsoft, PHR, tagged Aetna, Cigna, GE, Google, Healtheon, Intuit, McKesson, Microsoft, Revolution, RevolutionHealth, Siemens, WebMD on February 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This morning, along with announcing very good 4th qtr growth at WebMD, a concurrent announcement was made that Healtheon and WebMD have agreed to merge, putting the value of the combined entity at about $2.3B. Due to the structure of the deal, WebMD will also end up with a hefty war chest estimated at $700M. [...]
Taking Baby Steps, Google & Cleveland Clinic Partner on PHRs
Posted in Dossia, EMR, Google, health portals, Microsoft, PHR, PHS, RHIO, tagged Cleveland Clinic, Dossia, EMR, Epic, Google, HealthVault, Microsoft, NHIN, PHR, RHIO on February 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Late yesterday, the Cleveland Clinic announced that they have partnered with Google to do a pilot (beta) of the Google PHR. Cleveland Clinic intends to allow, by invitation, about 1-10% of its existing 100,000+ users of the Epic-based patient portal (a tethered PHR) called MyChart to participate in this trial. Stated purpose is to test [...]
Privacy Advocacy Group Attacks PHRs
Posted in consumer health, Dossia, Google, Microsoft, PHP, PHR, policy, Privacy, Security, tagged consumer, Dossia, Google, HealthVault, Microsoft, PHR, policy, Privacy on February 20, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Today, the World Privacy Forum released a report, Personal Health Records: Why Many PHRs Threaten Privacy. Both the 16 page report and a shorter, 5 page consumer advisory report can be found here. There was also an article today referencing the report in the San Fransisco Chronicle. While the report does not give names of [...]
