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I have been checking out the “HealthVault” to see if it will be of any value to me. Healthvault is an online storage place for your health information. It can store many different types of information. Obviously health records of all sorts but they also claim to be able to store exercise records directly from machines that have internet connections. I couldn’t try that out since I don’t own one. It sounds pretty nifty though. The first thing to notice is their requirement for a strong password during the registration process. It took me three attempts before my password was strong enough to allow entry to the site; not a bad thing. Once inside I found a lot of empty spaces because I have no records entered. The site is designed around a sharing concept. For example, I can allow doctors and hospitals to view or upload records. I can even allow a fitness instructor to view or add records. Not a bad thing because of health risks that must be known before working with a trainer. The sharing concept can be very useful if a hospital needs to see all the records, not just the form the doctor fills in. I can see a situation where I might run into a health problem while travelling and a local doctor needed my information. Of course he probably could just call my doctor at his office. Information can be filtered so only the records you want seen by a particular user (sharer) would be seen. Sharing is achieved by sending an e-mail to someone you will “enable” within the program. You can specify what records can be shared with that person and which records can be modified by that person, your doctor for example. They would need to be able to logon to effect the sharing. I don’t know what my doctor would be willing to do about that. Without doctor and hospital buy-in I can’t see how this will work. Although the results of blood work can be stored it will have to be entered by the lab, which also needs to buy-in to this system. Presently they have it in a computer and send a printout to the doctor. I don’t see any of these people on Microsoft’s program partner list. But if all that did work then I could just logon to Healthvault and read my test results without having to visit the doctor. That does seem like a good thing. Inside HealthVault is a series of web tools called programs. Here the vault is web connected to other Microsoft partners that have online tools that may be relevant to your situation. For example: The American Heart Association has a website that will enable blood pressure monitoring. The data is captured in your own records inside HealthVault. Once inside HealthVault you will still have to logon to the Heart Association site even though it’s the same logon as HealthVault. That’s a little tiresome and confusing. One logon should be enough. At one time I actually got lost and wasn’t sure what I was doing. There are partner programs for connecting through HealthVault to various organizations that specialize in data such as; fitness statistics, medication lists that are linked to information and updateable by your doctor.
The website is in Beta right now but these are some of my thoughts:
You can check it out for yourself by going here. Comments9 Comments so far |
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Two kinds of comments from the people I talk to: Positive and Negative
1. Healthvault is a big joke — a company like Microsoft should not rush out with a product or service in such poor quality. It is half baked and not really usable at this time. The feeling for this announcement is only for Microsoft marketing purpose and shows the immaturity and weakness of Microsoft plan in dealing with consumer health care issue.
2. Healthvault brought a great vision — whatever you see in this beta release is the beginning of a grand vision. It is a great leadership played by Microsoft to bring in many software and hardware companies together to serve the goal: consumer empowerment. With the resource (including talent) that Microsoft possesses and gaining idea from public comments, they are going to create another great opportunity in health care domain.
OPHRAH Health
Thanks for the great comments.
In some ways I agree with both of those opinions. The site is a mess but the idea is good. The issue I have is that without all those doctors, hospitals, labs etc it will go nowhere. They have connected to the largest and easiest targets such as the heart association. The real trick is getting the small organizations to play ball. That will be a very difficult task. They started with the low hanging fruit but that isn’t going to hack it. It will be interesting to see what they come up with.
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