Microsoft broadens HealthVault's appeal
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Microsoft Monday announced a pilot project with the nation's largest not-for-profit health care plan ? Kaiser Permanente ? to enable data transfers between consumers' medical records and Microsoft's HealthVault online health site.
To start, the pilot will only include volunteers from among KP's 156,000 employees, although if successful the offer will be extended to the plan's 8.6 million members according to a KP spokesperson.
Both companies seek that holy grail of consumers' medical records ? providing consumers with access to and control over what's called their "personal health records" or PHRs ? which can contain pretty much any and all personal health information on a patient.