Kaiser signs up for Microsoft’s HealthVault
Kaiser Permanente, the largest US nonprofit health maintenance organisation, has announced it will participate in Microsoft’s personal health record initiative linking Kaiser’s existing My Health Manager system to the HealthVault platform. The partnership, announced Monday, will begin with a pilot project open to Kaiser’s 156,000 employees, which will run until November. Assuming the pilot is […]
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E-health 2.0: health’s consumer revolution
E-Health Insider this week publishes a new research report on web 2.0 in healthcare. Lindsey Birnsteel reports.
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Google Health launched
Internet search giant Google yesterday unveiled Google Health, its online personal health record service.
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Swindells to open Healthcare Computing 2008
The Department of Health’s acting chief information officer, Matthew Swindells, has been confirmed as the opening speaker at next month’s Healthcare Computing conference. Swindells will tell the conference that IT professionals should “step forward and play their part” to help bring about changes in the NHS. He commented: “Information saves lives, so information professionals need […]
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Microsoft gets serious about health
Dr Bill Crounse, MD, Microsoft’s senior worldwide director of health, tells E-Health Insider’s Jon Hoeksma, that health is Microsoft’s fastest growing specialist group.
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Microsoft and Mayo Clinic partner on information
Microsoft Corp.’s Health Solutions Group and Mayo Clinic Health Solutions are to partner to jointly develop tools that will empower people to manage their health. The two companies say they will work to develop technology “to help bridge the gaps in the healthcare system, to facilitate closer patient-to-physician connections, and to allow patients and consumers […]
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Microsoft acquires hospital IT software from GCS
Microsoft Corporation has continued its push into the health IT systems market with the acquisition of a number of assets from Global Care Solutions, a Bangkok, Thailand-based, developer of enterprise-class health information systems. GCS offers several health-care IT products that run on Windows, including software that automates patient record keeping, billing, regulatory compliance, and clinical […]
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HealthVault for Europe? Not just yet
One of Microsoft’s senior managers for healthcare has told E-Health Europe that the company would like to bring a version of its new HealthVault personal health record (PHR) to Europe – though it has no immediate plans to do so. The US software giant launched its HealthVault personal health record in the US on 9 […]
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Microsoft launches HealthVault
Microsoft has launched a major personal health record initiative based on a secure website that allows users to store and share their health records using a free online service. The HealthVault portal allows users to store and share their medical histories, immunisation details, and data from monitoring devices such as glucose and cholestoral levels. A […]
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