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TITLE: Your removal of health records on the Web
Signature: David Lagesse
Consumers caught in our health care system are often the right to search for documents in a dirty game of Go Fish. Web help? Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault are the first examples of online sites where consumers can create, store, and even download the data to health records under their control.
The name of the other - the health revolution - is perhaps most relevant, since all these sites are part of a sort of revolt: Keep control of records of health care providers and patients scattered around. Consumers, however, much still needs to input the information themselves in the nascent Internet sites, a sad task that most will not undertake.
Thus, sites are partners in the queue, including drug chains and clinics that can electronically for valuable data in files. Privacy does caution that the movement of data outside the health system eliminates federal protections. But Google and Microsoft say they follow the same strict standards.
Insurers, meanwhile, also vast tracts of data, Microsoft has managed to snag a couple of large insurers as partners. But one, Aetna, is also launching his own site for patient data, to cement its relationship with consumers.
Some are competing with HealthVault Aetna site. Aetna risk does its relationship with consumers by making them pass data from the Microsoft site? "I am asked this question in Aetna more than I can count," said Dan Greden, head of e-health product management Aetna. But he is now convinced of the health providers to maintain their roles. "This is about allowing consumers to take more control over their health," says Greden.
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Sunday 1 March 2009
SECTION: BUSINESS & MONEY; News You Can Use; technology; Pg 75 Vol. 146 No. 2
LENGTH: 270 words
TITLE: Your removal of health records on the Web
Signature: David Lagesse
Consumers caught in our health care system are often the right to search for documents in a dirty game of Go Fish. Web help? Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault are the first examples of online sites where consumers can create, store, and even download the data to health records under their control.
The name of the other - the health revolution - is perhaps most relevant, since all these sites are part of a sort of revolt: Keep control of records of health care providers and patients scattered around. Consumers, however, much still needs to input the information themselves in the nascent Internet sites, a sad task that most will not undertake.
Thus, sites are partners in the queue, including drug chains and clinics that can electronically for valuable data in files. Privacy does caution that the movement of data outside the health system eliminates federal protections. But Google and Microsoft say they follow the same strict standards.
Insurers, meanwhile, also vast tracts of data, Microsoft has managed to snag a couple of large insurers as partners. But one, Aetna, is also launching his own site for patient data, to cement its relationship with consumers.
Some are competing with HealthVault Aetna site. Aetna risk does its relationship with consumers by making them pass data from the Microsoft site? "I am asked this question in Aetna more than I can count," said Dan Greden, head of e-health product management Aetna. But he is now convinced of the health providers to maintain their roles. "This is about allowing consumers to take more control over their health," says Greden.
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