A picture is worth 1000 words. I have recently had some conversations with health care clinicians, administrators, etc. about the Personal health records of Google and Microsoft Health Vault and this shows clearly how Beth Israel Deaconess has integrated the system with their own internal system...
The HealthVault and Google Health have already begun to impact the market and how the consumer thinks about health records today as this report indicates. With the recent partnership with Kaiser and the Microsoft HealthVault, I have already had some conversations with practices, hospitals, etc...
The competition for being “connected” with personal health records continues. Earlier this year Google made their announcements and this agreement with Kaiser looks to be pretty substantial. The key now is to encourage more consumers to take an interest in their health and establish a PHR...