Archive for the 'HealthVault' Category
Doctors Warn of Dangers of Storage of Health Records by MSFT / Google
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008The New York Times reports on commentary in the current New England Journal of Medicine where two doctors warn of the dangers of having large corporations like Microsoft or Google being in the business of storing patient medical records. Here’s the opening section of the doctors’ essay:
Tectonic Shifts in the Health Information Economy
In a recent […]
More (Limited) Peeks into Google Health
Thursday, February 28th, 2008Google has provided some more information about their beta eHealth product, including this claim regarding privacy and security:
Privacy and Security - Due to the sensitive and personal nature of the data that will be stored in Google Health, we need to conduct our health service with the same privacy, security, and integrity users have […]
More Designing for Privacy: Microsoft HealthVault
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Similar to my recent probes and interactions with the designers of the social networking site Moli, I recently enjoyed the opportunity to discuss privacy-related design issues with the product manager for Microsoft’s HealthVault platform.
HealthVault is Microsoft’s attempt to provide an online platform where personal electronic health records can be stored, managed, and shared with various […]




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