Microsoft, Kaiser Permanente Launch E-Health Record Pilot - InformationWeek

As the conflict to be the prima purveyor of consumers' Web-based personal wellness record tools heat ups up, Microsoft on Monday announced a airplane pilot programme with Kaiser Permanente, the nation's biggest wellness care organization, which launched its ain e-medical record programme for billions of patients a few old age ago.

The Kaiser Permanente and Microsoft airplane pilot programme takes to spread out functionality to the personal e-health records of Kaiser Permanente employees (who are also Kaiser Permanente patients), while providing to Microsoft a new pool of users as the seller shows to consumers at-large how they, too, can pull off their wellness information via Microsoft's HealthVault platform.

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The airplane pilot will prove the exchange of patient wellness information from Kaiser Permanente's My Health Director e-health record system to , which Microsoft unveiled last October as a Web-based service providing tools for consumers to pull off their ain wellness information and behavior private health-related Web-searches.

The Kaiser Permanente/Microsoft undertaking also come ups on the heels of last calendar month announcing the general handiness of .

That Google proclamation followed an e-health record airplane pilot launched last twelvemonth with more than than 1,600 patients, who signed on to have got their wellness information from the clinic's e-medical records incorporated into Google personal wellness record accounts. Last month, the Cleveland Clinic, as well as a few other health-care players, including respective big pharmaceutics iron and laboratory companies, announced they would also convey information to Google's Web-based personal wellness records when patients requested.

Beth State Of Israel Deaconess Checkup Center (BIDMC) is among the smattering of health-care suppliers that signed on to supply patient information to Google personal wellness records. However, the Boston-based medical centre -- which also lets patients to entree their e-medical data directly from BIDMC via a unafraid infirmary -- isn't playing favourites when it come ups to the consumer offers of personal wellness record services from Google and Microsoft. BIDMC will back up both platforms.

"We've already completed our paradigm for HealthVault," said Toilet Halamka, Congress of Industrial Organizations at CareGroup Healthcare System, which runs BIDMC. "I believe patients should be the stewards of their ain information and I'm committed to making information available to patients via any unafraid personal wellness record system they request," said Halamka in an interview with InformationWeek.

For its part, Microsoft have got been recruiting 3rd political parties to develop applications to run on HealthVault, and to date, about 40 such as applications have been developed, including those allowing patients to their blood pressure, glucose, and other key readings using personal wellness devices, and this information to share with their physicians, states Simon Peter Neupert, Microsoft Health Solutions Group corporate VP.