Jun 11, 2008 | consumer health, Engagement, Uncategorized
It never ceases to amaze me how much press Steve Case’s Revolution Health receives in the popular press. Just this week, in announcing the Microsoft-Kaiser agreement, the Wall St. Journal referenced Revolution Health in the same article as a company with...
Jun 10, 2008 | consumer health, Engagement, Uncategorized
Just got a press release from the fine folks at Microsoft announcing the 15 winners of the Be Well Fund. The Be Well Fund was established to help fund the development of novel applications for HealthVault at non-profit institutions. After an enormous out-pouring of...
Jun 3, 2008 | consumer health, Engagement, Uncategorized
Over on the ever so popular healthcare IT (HIT) rumor mongering website, HIStalk, there has been a running stream of comments since yesterday regarding PHRs that began with a comment by the owner of the site, Mr. HIStalk himself, more or less agreeing with comments by...
May 19, 2008 | consumer health, Engagement, Privacy, Security, Uncategorized
Late this afternoon, Google Health Beta officially opened its doors for anyone to sign-up. While I did predict they would go live in the 2nd quarter, I was thinking end of the quarter, not the mid-point. Hat’s off to Google for moving so quickly. As you know, I...
Mar 20, 2008 | Engagement, Policy, Privacy, Security, Uncategorized
There is a tremendous amount of press with associated pundits pontificating on the issue of security and privacy of electronic medical records (EMR) and personal health records (PHRs). Cries of I’ll never put my information on Google Health or Microsoft’s...