Microsoft Introduces HealthVault, Online Health Info Storage

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Microsoft took a bold step to unveil the company's latest online offering, the Microsoft HealthVault. The HealthVault is an online information storage facility designed to offer users' medical information. As Healthvault is a free service, users can freely access the highly secured online database for any type of medicinal information.

As put by Peter Neupert, corporate vice president of the Health Solutions Group at Microsoft on the objective of the HealthVault "Our focus is simple: to empower people to lead healthy lives. The launch of HealthVault makes it possible for people to collect their private health information on their terms and for companies across the health industry to deliver compatible tools and services built on the HealthVault platform."

One will be surprised to know that the HealthVault site is actually HealthVault search. The search result pages of this site gives one a comprehensive and well presented search result with some useful search refinements. The HealthVault search fives the results in three categories, such as article, web and sponsored results in three equally distributed column.

There is no doubt in the fact that the layout and presentation of the HealthVault search results, will help to gain tremendous popularity, and will target a lot of ad-driven revenue for Microsoft.

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October 6th, 2007 at 08:09
Thanks for the inforation.Now I head on to healthvault.
Mark Singh MD Says:
October 6th, 2007 at 08:16
I was initially disappointed when I signed up for my own personal HealthVault account. After spending some time redaing about the product, I realized that Microsoft's HealthVault is not a "PHR" but rather a "PHR platform" with a set of back-end services for secure storage, retrieval and sharing of healthcare information. These services can be used by a developer to actually build what we may describe as a "classic PHR"
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Charles Thrasher Says:
October 6th, 2007 at 10:28
In reply to Mark Singh's comment, it's true that HealthVault isn't a product so much as a platform. Still, Microsoft built its software success on creating a platform on which developers built useful applications. If they can generate sufficient interest among developers, HealthVault could become extremely useful to the public.

Frankly, the cost of healthcare is becoming a national crisis. The challenge is whether HealthVault can reach critical mass, creating a sufficiently large ecosystem to make it useful and self-supporting.

“It's a long journey,” said Peter Neupert, the head of Microsoft's health care efforts. “To make a difference in health care, it is going to take time and scale. And Microsoft has both.”
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