Raymond Rendleman, The Lund Report
“Technology is changing so quickly that state officials and advocates overseeing more streamlined transfers of health information in Oregon are scrambling to keep up.
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Brian T. Horowitz, eWeek
“As Microsoft prepares to move its Amalga health intelligence software into a joint venture with GE, analysts see an uncertain future for the HealthVault personal health record (PHR) platform, which remains with Microsoft.
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Le monde de la e-santé
“Pour s’en convaincre, il suffit de citer au minimum ces 2 exemples suivants, qui préfigurent de la bataille qui se joue actuellement autour du stockage des données médicales personnelles des patients.
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Brian Eastwood, Health IT Pulse
“A couple weeks ago, a certain editor proclaimed that personal health record (PHR) services ranked among the health IT trends not to watch in 2012, largely because patients seem reticent to use them.
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Dave Chase, Forbes
“In 2006, Microsoft acquired a health care computing system called Amalga, which aggregates health care data so doctors and hospitals can draw broader conclusions and patients can use it for better care.
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Sean Nolan, Family Health Guy
“Since 2006 we’ve been building towards a pretty bold vision of families using HealthVault to make their lives healthier, safer and happier. We’ve built a ton of plumbing to set the stage for Microsoft and our partners to realize that promise — creating connections to the healthcare system, adding mobile, medical images, secure messaging, information exchange, all kinds of stuff.
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Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“Microsoft has announced that people using the Google Health service – scheduled to close on Jan. 1, 2012 – can transfer personal health information stored in a Google Health profile to a Microsoft HealthVault account using the Direct Project messaging protocols.
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Dana Blankenhorn, Seeking Alpha
“There is a common assumption in computing that when the generalists enter a niche, the specialists must give way. So when Microsoft (MSFT) entered the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) market, I assumed that specialists such as McKesson (MCK) and Cerner (CERN) would soon look for the exits.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“If you ask Microsoft Health Group’s Chief Architect and General Manager Sean Nolan what the shuttering of Google Health means for HealthVault, he’ll tell you the “real and simple” answer to that question is “nothing.” Apart from an expected influx of new HealthVault users — those forced to abandon Google Health — Nolan said one change will be getting “used to being out there more or less on our own.” If you are having trouble detecting Microsoft’s tone, I’ll help you out: Triumphant.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Microsoft is set to take the spoils of Google Health’s demise. The former online personal health record rivals are working together behind the scenes to help Google Health users easily migrate their personal e-health record data to Microsoft HealthVault’s personal health record platform.
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Edwin Kee, Ubergizmo
“You ought to know by now that the Google Health service will be terminated from January 1, 2012 onwards, with one more year left on the calendar for you to transfer data out to a different platform.
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Bill Crounse and Sean Nolan, Healthblog
“Ever since the announcement last week that Google would be shutting down Google Health, the blogosphere has been abuzz with opinions on why this is happening and what it means to the industry. David Chase wrote a piece saying it was about the money, and the fact that clinicians don’t get reimbursed for doing much of anything except seeing patients in person or doing procedures in a medical office.
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Matthew Holt, The Health Care Blog
“This is another in the numerous “death of Google Health” stories that have been appearing since Friday when the Google blog announced the pulling of the plug. I must admit to being more than a little pissed off with Larry Page or whomever it was within Google that made the decision. After all, Google Health was only introduced a tad more than 3 years ago (premiered at HIMSS in Feb 2008; launched officially later that year). And just nine months ago they hired a new product manager and debuted some interesting new features connecting to the new wave of personal sensors.
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Katherine Rourke, EMR and EHR
“So, Google Health’s slow collapse — akin to a tire with a slow but obvious leak — has finally come to an end. This week, Google officially ended the project, one of the pioneering efforts in the Personal Health Records space. While GH will stumble along through January 1, 2012, the jig is finally up.
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Fred Trotter
“Recently, Google announce that the Google Health PHR will be retiring.
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Susan Wilson, Tech.Blorge
“Almost four years ago online health records were the next big thing in health care. People could record all of their health information online. They could share their records with hospitals and physicians offices to create some consistency between family doctors and specialists, and easy access to patient history if they wound up in the hospital.
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“BIDMC has been offering Personal Health Records since 1999 and we’ve learned that patient information must be organized appropriately and wrapped in patient education materials so that the data is transformed into knowledge, and is actionable.
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Meaningful HIT News with Neil Versel
“Yes, Facebook has issues with privacy. Just Monday, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the Center for Digital Democracy, Consumer Watchdog and the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse formally asked the Federal Trade Commission to stop Facebook from launching a facial-recognition feature.
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Mike Miliard, The Mobility Blog
“Sean Nolan, chief architect and general manager of Microsoft’s Health Solutions Group, broke the news with palpable excitement in a blog post last Tuesday.
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PRNewswire
“Of the 428 participants analyzed thus far, the study showed an increase in adherence from 51 to 67% with daily glaucoma therapy using a MEMOTEXT adherence solution integrated with Microsoft HealthVault.
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