Microsoft Launches Health Records Site: HealthVault
October 4th, 2007 by Neal
One of our clients, CapMed, is getting a lot of great press associated with the launch of the Microsoft HealthVault.
Here is a snippet from today’s press release:
Microsoft said CapMed, which already markets personal health record tools, will create an application for HealthVault, as will Kryptic Corp., whose program will help doctors send and receive information from HealthVault without having to switch from technology they already use.
Helping CapMed develop these personal health record tools has been the focus and passion of most our team over the past year or so, and we are all extremely excited to see it getting launched to the real world–as part of the new Microsoft Health solution, no less. Congratulations, CapMed! Woohoo!
See HealthVault here.
See news on these new tools for Microsoft here.
See the press release here.
See the CapMed icePHR solution that we helped build here.
See the Microsoft HealthVault Developer Center here.
See blog entry on the Health Care Blog here.
See blog entry on DiabetesMine here.
More blogs on this launch (sorry, this is a massive PR effort on Microsoft’s part and it’s fascinating to see it unfold) here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
October 13th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
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.
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