New Microsoft software tools let users build health profile
| October 5, 2007 |  View for printing |
Microsoft executives have long talked about their plans to push technology further into the health-care field, both at the lab bench and the bedside.
The company made some first steps with a couple of recent acquisitions and, on Thursday, it launched a new "software-plus-services" combination designed to help people compile personal health data and share it with doctors.
HealthVault http://healthvault.com/ , as the company is branding this effort, allows users to create an account online that will store data such as medical history, health-plan information, prescriptions, images, cholesterol and blood-pressure readings. The data can be entered by the patient or by a medical provider authorized by the patient.
By Benjamin J. Romano
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