Category: HealthVault

Connecting for Health: Another wave in the shift to consumer controlled health information

noreply@blogger.com (RCoffield@fsblaw.com)
The recent announcement of the Common Framework for Networked Personal Health Information by the Connecting for Health collaboration lead by the Markle Foundation is just the next wave in what may be a tidal shift. The tidal shift is one centered on the input, control, ownership, and administration of health information […]

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Microsoft Healthvault Be Well Fund Increased

Scott MacStravic
The Microsoft’s HealthVault Be Well Fund has decided to increase the aware funding from $3M to $4.5M after receiving almost 200 proposals from academic and research health organizations from across the United States.
I’m interested to see the variety/type of proposals submitted and selected. What type of creative approaches and disruptive improvements might […]

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HealthVault: Adding Structure (Interoperability) to the Health Information Ecosystem

RCoffield@fsblaw.com
Last week (October 4) Microsoft rolled out a brand new vehicle that should help accelerate the growing consumer driven health care movement and creation of a national interoperable health information system. HealthVault is a new personal health record (PHR) platform that allows the user to gather, store and share health information online.
There […]

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