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.

Related Posts (# comments)

October 5, 2007 -- Microsoft’s HealthVault: User Manual = C-, Strategy to Create a New Ecosystem = A (11)
December 18, 2006 -- Resources (1)
May 4, 2008 -- Perspectives on the Upcoming 5th Annual Healthcare Unbound Conference (0)
May 17, 2007 -- Disease Management Going Mobile & Retail: QUALCOMM’s Health Care MVNO (46)
May 12, 2007 -- Evidence for Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM): The Glass is More than Half Full (4)

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Jim Giuffré, MPH — Healthwise
Steve Hards — Telecare Aware
Rose Higgins, RN, BSN, MPM — iMetrikus
Jim Jacobson, JD — Holland & Knight
Ken Joslyn, MD, MPH — Medica Health Plans
David C. Kibbe, MD MBA — The Kibbe Group
Joseph Kvedar, MD — Center for Connected Health
Al Lewis, JD — Disease Management Purchasing Consortium
Ariel Linden, DrPH, MS — Linden Consulting Group
Charlene Marietti, MS, MT (ASCP) — Healthcare Informatics
Julie Meek, DNS — CareGuide
Gordon Norman, MD, MBA — Alere
John Riedel, MBA, MPH — Riedel & Associates
Craig Russell — Health Dialog
Jay Srini, MS, MBA, FHIMSS -- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)
Warren Todd, MBA — International Disease Management Alliance
Tom Wilson, PhD, DrPH — Trajectory Healthcare

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