The Yabuts of Sharing Data Between Google Health and HealthVault

“Yesterday’s post ended with the optimistic observation that Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault have agreed in principle that the platforms will be open and interoperable. (Presumably) you’ll be able to either 1) move all your data from Google Health to HealthVault, or vice versa, and 2) be able to transfer data across networks, e.g., your doctor has signed up with HealthVault and the lab belongs to Google Health, but because the platforms are open and interoperable data will pass across the network and your doctor will get lab results seamlessly.”
Article
Vince Kuraitis, e-CareManagement Blog, 13 November 2008

Cleveland Clinic & HealthVault Unite

“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 Deaconess Medical Center, who was part of the initial Google Health public roll-out in May and who has since also established a link to HealthVault for their PatientSite users, Cleveland Clinic is taking an agnostic approach to the major platform plays with this agreement.”
Article
John Moore, Chilmark Research, 10 November 2008

Cleveland Clinic tests Microsoft health-monitoring technology geared for patients to use

“The Cleveland Clinic is testing an electronic health technology that could help transform the way its doctors and other caregivers practice medicine.
The Clinic is partnering with Microsoft HealthVault to enable certain patients to monitor chronic conditions — high blood pressure, diabetes and heart failure — at home. These patients will use high-tech devices, home computers and the Internet to keep Clinic doctors posted on their conditions.”
Article
Mary Vanac, Cleveland.com, 10 November 2008

9.1M Users for Google and/or Microsoft Health Platforms

“The DoD is facing the same issues as its private sector counterparts with unsustainable growth in healthcare spending, which is now estimated to be well over $43B in 2008. A key contributor to that growth has been medications, growing from $1.6B in 2000 to $6.2B in 2006.”
Article
John Moore, Chilmark Research, 6 November 2008

Healthy debate on electronic health records

“Backed by both presidential candidates, Silicon Valley tech giants and other companies are leading an effort to create electronic health records containing data about your most intimate health conditions — from your bunions and bad back to your chronic hemorrhoids and psychiatric history — so the information can be easily shared with doctors, insurers and others.”
Article
Steve Johnson, Mercury News, 31 October 2008

Google, Microsoft, Dossia & WebMD: Panel Highlights

“One of the treats of this week’s Connected for Health Symposium was the opportunity to moderate a panel entitled: Personal Health Information Platforms and Records: What’s the Nitty-Gritty Situation on the Ground?”
Article
John Moore, Chilmark Research, 29 October 2008

Trust but Verify and Trust but Fork

“I have enjoyed participating in the National Dialogue about Health IT. One of the challenges put forward to my suggestion that decision makers should insist on FOSS in Health IT, was the following comment:
in terms of privacy, there’s nothing inherent in FOSS that makes it superior to all proprietary products.
I have discussed this issue before, mostly when discussing HealthVault, but my comments have been spread out over several articles.”
Article
Fred Trotter, 28 October 2008

Personal health record platform makers look to engage the users

“Someday it will be routine for physicians and their patients to use personal health records. But the companies building those engines aren’t taking that for granted.
Officials from Google Health, Dossia, WebMD and Microsoft discussed ways to engage both physicians and consumers during the Center for Connected Health symposium Monday in Boston.”
Article
Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News, 28 October 2008

Health 2.0 Liveblog: Consumer Information Aggregators

“Five companies that are leaders in making consumer data, including personal health records, available.”
Article
Craig Stoltz, The Health Care Blog, 22 October 2008

Aetna Jumps onto HealthVault Bandwagon

“In what will likely be on e of the “bigger” announcements here at the Health 2.0 conference, Aetna and Microsoft made the joint announcement that beginning in November, Aetna members who use the Care-Engine PHR (underlying technology is ActiveHealth which Aetna acquired a couple of years back), will be able to export their records to their HealthVault account.”
Article
John Moore, Chilmark Research, 22 October 2008

Halamka: PHRs promote transparency, which makes everyone a winner

“One of the more forceful voices in healthcare offered his opinion of personal health records this past week at the New England HIMSS Chapter Conference on HIT.
“Patients should be stewards of their own data,” said John Halamka, MD, chief information officer Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, during the conference in South Portland, Maine.”
Article
Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News, 20 October 2008

Online health records: New frontier in a ‘wild, wild West’

“The new online health accounts that give consumers a way to store and keep track of their medical data are the newest frontier in the unregulated terrain of electronic health records.
While laws like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) provide certain protections for records, online health accounts fall outside those regulations because the commercial entities offering them – Google, Microsoft, WebMD and Revolution Health to name a few – are not “health care providers”, nor does the data necessarily fall under the definition of a “medical record”.”
Article
Sylvia Hsieh, Medical Law Report, 17 October 2008

Microsoft Healthvault: Coke, Pepsi or Intel Inside

“When Microsoft launched its HealthVault application last year — the first major commercial Personal Health Record (PHR) system on the open web — the Wall Street Journal reported that “Consumers are just not that excited about these services.”  A year later, I’m wondering: have they given us reason to be more excited now?  Last week, I grilled HealthVault’s rival Google Health about the progress they are making.  Are these big players trying too hard to be all things to all people?  Or, with their rather generic “personal health platforms,” do they end up offering nothing much of value, especially to people living with chronic illness?”
Article
Amy Tenderich, The Health Care Blog, 14 October 2008

PHR Platforms Race: HealthVault Updated, Consumer Interest Still Unproven

“Last two years brought unprecedented interest in Personal Health Records (PHRs). Started in healthcare industry outlets the excitement crossed over into traditional media and the expectations are high.”
Article
Hippocrates, Trusted MD, 7 October 2008

iPHR 2008 Market Report: Executive Summary

“This 20pg Executive Summary, which is being offered for free, highlights the findings of Chilmark Research’s recently published comprehensive report on Internet-based Personal Health Record (iPHR) market, which was released in late May 2008. Exec. Summary provides an overview of market trends for Internet-based PHR solutions as well analysis on the future impact of major platforms from Dossia, Google and Microsoft.”
Report
Chilmark Research, October 2008

Some Clues About the Microsoft Healthcare IT Strategy

“I recently received a comment from a healthcare blogger, Dr. Peter Kim, in response to my note about Microsoft’s EMR product, Amalga (see: Amalga Makes Inroads in the EMR World). It raises some interesting points so I reproduce it below. You may want to take a look at Dr. Kim’s blog (see: The EMR/EHR Show). He has also blogged specifically about Google’s role in EMR development (see: Is Google The Answer To EMR?).”
Article
Bruce Friedman, Lab Soft News, 30 September 2008

HealthVault Surges, Google Flounders

“Late last week I received a note from Sean Nolan, Chief Architect for Microsoft�s HealthVault. While Sean and I certainly share a passion for the home town team, the Red Sox, he was not writing to share the joy of seeing the Red Sox capture a play-off berth. No, Sean was writing to tell me about his latest post, a post where he discusses where HealthVault is today and how one might use HealthVault to manage their personal health.”
Article
John Moore, Chilmark Research, 29 September 2008

The HealthVault Nickel Tour

“A couple of weeks ago now we shipped a bunch of new HealthVault stuff — in particular, we’ve significantly enhanced the tools available directly on healthvault.com. We had a bunch of our best designers rework the site’s content, styling and navigation, and added editing and graphing capability for a set of core data types. This stuff is really exciting to me because I believe it helps users answer the question, “How do I get started?” And most importantly, the investments we’ve made in controls for viewing, editing and graphing HealthVault data will ultimately make their way into our SDK (Software Development Kit) — reinforcing again our commitment to making it easier and easier for our partners to build great HealthVault applications.”
Article
Sean Nolan, Family Health Guy, 26 September 2008

EPD-vraagstuk botst met Health2.0-werkelijkheid

“Het elektronisch pati�ntendossier (EPD) haalde deze maand de troonrede. Voor de regering is het dit najaar er op of er onder: het landelijk dossier inclusief schakelpunt moet er komen. Een kaderwet met daarin de verplichtstelling dat op 1 september 2009 zorgverleners, huisartsen, apothekers en ziekenhuizen deel moeten nemen aan het landelijk schakelpunt, moet leiden tot het succesvol einde van een langlopend overheidsproject. De Tweede Kamer lijkt minister Klink te steunen, maar tegelijkertijd wijzen steeds meer marktpartijen het landelijk EPD af. Huisartsen, zorgbestuurders en zelf de Raad voor de Volkgezondheid plaatsen kritische kanttekeningen. Online dossiers als Google Health worden als oplossing genoemd. Health2.0-toepassingen lijken het bastion van het EPD te kraken. Een inzicht in de discussie.”
Article (Dutch)
Martijn Hulst, FrankWatching, 26 September 2008

Confusion behind the dikes

In The Netherlands the implementation of a country wide EHR is a complicated process, as is the case in� many Europena countries.

The HIMSS report from August stated that:

The Dutch government does not intend to develop a centralized EPR system, choosing instead to store medical data at the several local sources where they were captured. It should become possible to combine relevant medical data from these local sources into a national virtual EHR system. (p.24)
Existing legislation regarding health data protection starts with the patientprovider relationship. It does not allow for centralized storage of patient health information. (p.25)

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Google Health en Microsoft Health Vault Persoonlijk zorgdossier nuttige aanvulling op EPD

“Al jaren kunnen pati�nten zelf medische gegevens vastleggen, bijvoorbeeld via internet of op een USB-stick. In sommige systemen voor pati�nten kunnen ook gegevens vanuit de computer van hun zorgverlener worden geladen. Tot nu toe worden dit soort oplossingen slechts op beperkte schaal gebruikt. Doordat vorig jaar grote ICT-spelers als Microsoft en Google aankondigden ook producten op dit gebied te gaan leveren, is de aandacht hiervoor snel toegenomen. De generieke naam die het meest gebruikt wordt is Personal Health Record (PHR). Sommigen zien hierin de oplossing voor goede overdracht van gegevens in de gezondheidszorg. De invoering van een landelijk EPD zou hiermee in hun ogen zelfs overbodig worden.
De vraag rijst wat we nu werkelijk van deze ontwikkeling kunnen verwachten. In dit artikel worden de overwegingen op een rij gezet. Belangrijkste conclusie: het is niet of-of maar en-en.”
Article (Dutch)
Nictiz, 17 September 2008

New Frontiers in PHRs

“Normally talk about �new ecosystems� might be heard at a wildlife conference, but it dominated the presentations given in Washington on September 17 during a conference on �New Frontiers in Personal Health Records� sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).”
Article
Stephen Barlas, Digital Healthcare & Productivity, 23 September 2008

Cell Phone App to Link to HealthVault

“Wilkes-Barre, Pa.-based AllOne Health Group Inc. will integrate its AllOne Mobile software with the HealthVault initiative of Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft Corp. This will enable consumers to access and transmit their personal health information using cell phones and smart phones.”
Article
Health Data Management, 22 September 2008

Cloud computing puts your health data at risk

“The advent of “in the cloud” medical records services, such as Microsoft HealthVault and Google Health, promises an explosion in the storage of personal health-care information online.
But these services pose sticky privacy questions � unless you know how to protect your personal medical records.”
Article
Stuart J. Johnston, Windows Secret, 18 September 2008

It�s About the Patient: Peter Neupert on Consumers, Standards, and what HealthVault Needs to Succeed

“Peter Neupert is Corporate Vice President, Health Solutions Group, at Microsoft, which is charging into the personal health record field with HealthVault.� After the recent spat of articles and editorials in Health Affairs debating health IT strategy, I was eager to hear Peter�s view on the �standards first?� controversy and how Microsoft sees the emerging consumer health world.”
Article
Malorye Allison, World Health Care Blog, 16 September 2008

HealthVault Personal Health Records gets a Facelift - Match records and find clinical trials

“This is nice and much simpler and easier to navigate.� I like it, not that the old one was bad by any means, this is just a much easier format to work with.� I have provided some screenshots below.� It is much easier to find the information you want.
Article
The Medical Quack, 14 September 2008

Consumer control over personal medical data is coming to Canada

“Technology that claims to put consumers instead of institutions in control of their own healthcare information is coming. But with it comes new privacy and security worries.
Beta versions of Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault - both examples of new personal health record (PHR) technology - were launched last year. These free software products allow consumers to store and manage their personal medical data in structured repositories online.”
Article
Rosie Lombardi, InterGovWorld.com, 8 September 2008

Nictiz: �Persoonlijk zorgdossier nuttige aanvulling op EPD�

“De persoonlijke zorgdossiers van Google en Microsoft kunnen een nuttige aanvulling vormen op het landelijk EPD. Google Health en Health Vault van Microsoft maken het landelijk EPD echter niet overbodig. Dat stelt Nictiz in een artikel dat deze week op de website wordt gezet.”
Article (Dutch)
Mario Gibbels, ICTZorg, 9 September 2008

Consumer Health Information Services 2.0

“Web 2.0 functionality is changing the way consumers search for, evaluate, and use health information. What are some of the new �Consumer Health 2.0� sites and their features? How will this trend toward participatory information processing affect traditional sites such as the National Library of Medicine’s MedlinePlus? How should librarians approach this new paradigm of health information-seeking? This article analyzes the current and potential environment for health information on the Internet and the role of the librarian in that environment.”
Abstract
Susan Mayer, Kay Smith, Gabriel Rios, Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet, Volume: 12 Issue: 3, 187 - 199, DOI: 10.1080/15398280802143566

Privacy Certification Program Aims to Ensure Patients� Trust

“A former senior advisor in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is heading up the first large-scale effort to certify health-IT products for adherence to privacy standards.
For the past month, William Yasnoff, has been the part-time chief executive and a board member of Patient Privacy Certified, a new, nonprofit affiliate of the Patient Privacy Rights Foundation (Austin, Texas). Deborah Peel, the founder and public face of Patient Privacy Rights, is serving as chair of the certification program.”
Article
Neil Versel, Digital Healthcare & Productivity, 3 September 2008