Microsoft HealthVault health website launched
October 7th, 2007 Leave a comment Visited 436 times, 1 so far today
Microsoft HealthVault health website launched
Microsoft has managed to launch their health portal before Google could launch theirs!
The company announced the launch of HealthVault site which has been designed to enable users to manage their personal health and medical information online.
However, experts believe that this could become a privacy problem as U.S. Laws would not be able to protect patients’ most confidential details.
The service is free and supported with online advertising. It enables a web user to store medical histories, immunization and other records.
Incidentally, they have been planning to launch this service since at least 2000 when company chief Steve Ballmer talked about such a project.
Reece Hirsch, a partner at the law firm Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal had these views: “Financial information is certainly sensitive, but medical information adds another whole degree of concern, when it’s HIV test results or information regarding mental health treatment. There’s a lot of emotional distress associated with inappropriate disclosure of that information.”
Checkout: Microsoft HealthVault
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