In one group providers will migrate an existing personal health record offering to Microsoft HealthVault and expand usage, currently at about 1,400 patients, so patients will have their health records available to share at their discretion. Over in Dallas, patients will have the option to give their permission to have a telephone consultation placed in Microsoft's Health Vault, so a recount of the consultation is available for the patient to maintain, and again share as they desire. Links to both the HealthVault and Google Health are located on this page if you want to get started. BD
The Washington State Health Care Authority is spending $1.7 million to finance health record banking pilot projects in three communities. Two of the health care providers involved in the project have teamed up with Microsoft HealthVault, and the other is partnered with Google Health.
The winners of the grants are Inland Northwest Health Services in Spokane, which is working with Google Health and will receive $583,377; and the two providers working with Microsoft HealthVault: Community Choice Healthcare Network, which will get $551,448, and St. Joseph Hospital Foundation and the Critical Junctures Institute in Bellingham, which will get $598,352.
Washington state launches health records banking pilot projects
Dallas-based TelaDoc offers fee-based 24/7 non-emergency telephone consultations by primary care physicians who are licensed in all 50 states. Cost of the telephone consultation is often less than the fee for an office or emergency room visit, the company says. Under the alliance with Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft Corp., TelaDoc physicians, with patient permission, can add encounter data from a telephone consultation to a patient’s HealthVault personal health record.
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