http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_42/b4054047.htm
OCTOBER 15, 2007
NEWS & INSIGHTS
Microsoft Wants Your Health Records
Its new service will store your data in one place—and search ads could make it pay
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Step into a medical office, and you’re faced with a paradox of modern medicine. Just beyond the receptionist’s desk are all sorts of cutting-edge medical technology. Computed tomography scanners. Electrocardiogram machines. Bone densitometers.
But as you approach that desk to check in, you take a trip back in time. There the receptionist hands you a clipboard of forms. For the umpteenth time you fill in your name, age, allergies, medical history, and the like. For all the medical breakthroughs created by technology, medical records remain an anachronism.
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“We can trust Microsoft to keep our health data secure? — Right!” — Luddite
You’ll be surprised to know that I signed myself and Frau up for the service. I haven’t loaded any data yet, but I’m planning to.
Why?
I can hear it all the way from here.
Because, it would have been, and would be useful, in various circumstances.
If I had been more on the ball, then her experience at Pton Hospital where they really screwed her up, might not have happened, or been well documented.
One of the reasons I went to those corny “frau med alert” email was to keep a chronology clear in my head and establish a trail.
I’ve tried several similar services and they either folded, got lost, or were cumbersome. I’m always willing to try stuff if I can see a benefit. No matter how obscure.
Anyway, it might be useful in an emergency, or in litigation.
Besides the insurance companies, the hospitals, and the gooferment already have it all keyed to SSN, how much worse could MSFT make it?
imho!
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UPDATE
People are beginning to weigh in on the topic.
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