Lifeclinic International and Get Real Consulting Team-Up to Launch Microsoft's HealthVault

One more partner setting up with Microsoft HealthVault for personal health records. The software partner, Get Real Consulting specializes in helping vendors create software that will link and input information to the HealthVault.

“We can enable a broad spectrum of solutions one from one-way data transfer to bi-directional synchronization. By interoperating with HealthVault, our clients have a bridge to numerous other health information systems.
We are able to implement Health IT standards-based solutions such as Continuity of Care Records (CCRs) and solutions based on data standards such as SNOMED CT.”

Lifeclinic personal health records will also connect to the HealthVault. What is interesting with the development of the PHR, is that many of the existing portals and software projects on the market are now realizing the importance of connecting to a product that is secure and universally available from any internet connected computer, and have the availability to take records with you, in the case of some of the employer or other types of records that are typically just '”in house” and available only when one is a member or patient of that facility.

It appears some of the freestanding units, perhaps as found in a store for example, will now be able to send your reading direct to your HealthVault account. There will probably be more information forthcoming as the project develops. BD

Press Release:

Lifeclinic International, Inc., the world's leading manufacturer and distributor of automated blood pressure monitors and health testing stations along with Get Real Consulting, an expert in Internet software development, team-up to launch Microsoft's HealthVault within Lifeclinic's family of products.

Burtonsville, MD (PRWEB) December 10, 2008 -- Lifeclinic International, Inc., the world's leading manufacturer and distributor of automated blood pressure monitors and health testing stations along with Get Real Consulting, an expert in Internet software development, team-up to launch Microsoft's HealthVault within Lifeclinic's family of products.

Lifeclinic Chief Medical Officer, John T. Kelly, M.D., Ph.D. says, "Because of the power and excellence of the Microsoft brand, the HealthVault platform is becoming one of the largest and most well-respected portals within the healthcare community. Today, people use a variety of health devices that provide biometric data. Giving them and their healthcare providers the ability to store and access this information from one trusted location - HealthVault - is extremely powerful."

Lifeclinic's health stations allow users to perform various biometric tests. Users can electronically save their data for the creation of a Personal Health Record (PHR) and for tracking and charting with the use of various tools made available at Lifeclinic.com and Microsoft's HealthVault.

Dr. Kelly continues, "People need to feel confident that their privacy and health information are being thoroughly protected. Lifeclinic's ability to send consumers' health data from its health stations to HealthVault makes us one of today's safest and most secure online health and equipment providers. Get Real developed the software to facilitate uploading information from our machines into HealthVault."

Get Real Consulting has unique experience in the integration of applications with HealthVault. Get Real CEO Mark Heaney commented, "We're pleased to be involved with one of the first applications in the emerging Internet health arena and to be leveraging HealthVault to empower people to improve their health."

About Lifeclinic International, Inc.
Lifeclinic is the world's largest supplier of commercial, automated, blood pressure monitors and health stations. Lifeclinic monitors can be found in over 30,000 pharmacies and 5,000 worksites wellness centers, medical clinics and health clubs worldwide, performing 500 million blood pressure measurements annually. Lifeclinic monitors, health stations and management systems encourage individuals to take an active role in their healthcare and provide corporate management with tools to help reduce costs while improving the health of individual employees.

About Get Real Consulting
Get Real Consulting is a Web software development professional services company with offices outside Washington, DC and in Bangalore, India. Specializing in powerful easy to use Web sites and applications, Get Real is pioneering Internet health and wellness Web portals.