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Archive for October, 2007

What Will Microsoft’s HealthVault Mean to the Telehealth Community?

My colleague Tim Gee and I are guest bloggers on the Get-Connected Forum at the Center for Connected Health.  We speculate on:
What Will Microsoft’s HealthVault Mean to the Telehealth Community?
Our bottom line:  HealthVault overall is a positive for telehealth industry growth and scale, even though it will speed the inevitable commoditization of remote patient monitoring (RPM) devices.

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Latest Edition of the Health Wonk Review

Read the best recent efforts of health care bloggers!  The latest edition of the Health Wonk Review is posted at Jason Shifrin’s Healthcare Economist blog.  Thanks, Jason.

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Four Misconceptions About HealthVault and the Emerging Personal Health Information Ecosystem (PHI-Ecosystem)

by Vince Kuraitis and David C. Kibbe, MD MBA 
The health care and technology worlds are still trying to figure out what Microsoft’s HealthVault (HV) is all about.  We believe that there are a number of misconceptions out there about what HV is and isn’t:
Misconception #1: HealthVault is a personal health record (PHR).
Misconception #2: People don’t trust Microsoft, [...]

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Microsoft’s HealthVault: User Manual = C-, Strategy to Create a New Ecosystem = A

Would you like to have the experience of being parachuted into a deep forest with no map of where you are or clues about how to get out?  If so, I suggest that you go directly to Microsoft’s new PHR at www.healthvault.com and just TRY to figure out where you are or where you’re headed.
Initial [...]

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