HealthVault Announced by Microsoft

New York Times, October 4, 2007 Microsoft is starting its long-anticipated drive into the consumer health care market by offering free personal health records on the Web and pursuing a strategy that borrows from the company’s successful formula in personal computer software....  (read full story)

Ready for HealthVault

HealthVault and MedCommons will play well together:
  • MedCommons and HealthVault are built upon common standards
  • MedCommons will support two way transfers in and out of personal Windows Live HealthVault Accounts
  • MedCommons also integrates Facebook, and the forthcoming Google Social Network, as well as the Windows Live HealthVault Service
But MedCommons is very different than HealthVault. You run the service. We are selling boxes that can be deployed by your organization in under an hour. Your box, your business model:
  • MedCommons sells shrink-wrapped HealURL Appliances as both hardware and vmware/linux software appliances; incrementally add more appliances as volume grows
  • Appliance is controlled via a router-Like console interface; Owner controls the brand seen by users
  • Appliance stores patient HealthURL Accounts on premises, offsite, or both
  • Optionally operate an OpenID Identity Provider to issue Single Sign-On Identities; and selectively reflect trust relationships with other service providers
  • Selectively participate in other Social Networks such as Facebook; or build your own web2.0 network using our RestFull web services API/li>
  • Provide a customizable portal for Patients, and a separate one for Providers
  • FDA Registered Diagnostic Radiology and Cardiology Imaging with HealthVault and Patient Portal Accounts

MedCommons is a True Commons

Install a MedCommons Health URL Appliance1 and make your practice the "medical home"2 for patient records on your own terms. A MedCommons Health URL Appliance reduces the cost of fulfilling records requests, and increases the value of these records by making them readily available to authorized care team members3. The appliance is secure, HIPAA-compliant and FDA-510k registered to manage and display diagnostic radiology images with or without a PACS4. Use it to fulfill record requests from patients and consultants, end the tyranny of paper, fax and DICOM CDs, park your genome, or as the core of a new Web-scale radiology practice5.

What is a HealthURL?

A full-strength summary of one person's clinical situation, over a lifetime from childhood immunizations to chronic disease management

healthURL

Independent of insurance companies, employers, bureaucrats, and not tethered to any single provider6.

MedCommons HealthURL Appliance

A Health URL is a patient-centered portfolio of private health information on the Internet. Each Health URL points to an individual person's account that stores and delivers health records assembled from hospitals and other health care providers, important documents such as advance directives and diagnostic imaging such as CT and MRI studies. Health URL accounts are used collaboratively by physicians and other clinical practitioners as well as by interested patients and their authorized caregivers. Access to the Health URL account is via over 30 standard Web services and legacy enterprise interfaces. Strict, HIPAA-compliant privacy and security safeguards are integral to the Appliance. A hospital, practice or service provider hosts Health URL accounts on behalf of their patients by licensing software for installation on-site or in a hosting center. The MedCommons Health URL Appliance is a convenient, integrated and HIPAA-compliant way for a provider to add Internet collaboration for telemedicine, referrals, secure messaging, paperless health information management, night call coverage, home care devices, interaction with retail clinics as well as new consumer-centered Web sites. A RESTful API is ready for Web 2.0 integration in health care.