Dec 7, 2008 | consumer health, Engagement, Uncategorized
Last month, we posted on reports that the Department of Defense (DoD) was working with both Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault to provide military personnel and their families a PHR. On Friday, the DoD formally announced the launch of MiCare, their PHR for...
Dec 1, 2008 | consumer health, Engagement, Uncategorized
Being the nation’s largest heatlhcare insurer, it was only a matter of time before United Health Group (UNH) jumped into the fray of providing a consumer-centric healthcare website, which they announced this morning, myOptumHealth.com. This follows similar...
Nov 6, 2008 | consumer health, Engagement, Uncategorized
The DoD is facing the same issues as its private sector counterparts with unsustainable growth in healthcare spending, which is now estimated to be well over $43B in 2008. A key contributor to that growth has been medications, growing from $1.6B in 2000 to $6.2B in...
Oct 27, 2008 | Connected Health, consumer health, Engagement, Policy
Bouncing from the Health 2.0 event last week to Connected for Health Symposium here in Boston, organized by Partners Healthcare, I’ll be reporting on some of the key presentations. Will also be moderating the afternoon session on the major platform plays,...
Jul 24, 2008 | Engagement, Uncategorized
Today, Microsoft’s HealthVault group announced a strategic partnership with RelayHealth. RelayHealth, a company acquired by the huge healthcare company McKesson a couple of years back, brings to HealthVault a very large physician customer base that leverage the...