Your Personal Medical History on HealthVault

Posted By: Joshua Allen | Sep 18th, 2008 @ 7:54 AM

Why are Google and Microsoft creating large centralized databases of people's medical histories? Why are two Internet giants getting involved in medicine? And what is Microsoft doing to protect patients' privacy?

Watch this intriguing interview with George Scriban, Product Manager for HealthVault, Microsoft's online service for personal health. George explains why HealthVault is an natural extension of Microsoft's historical vision of empowering personal computing, and why Microsoft is in a unique position to protect and steward information like this.

Tags: HealthVault, Privacy

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ByteKing

Heres how google thinks about it

Thievery: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXe9mfEiNOY

system

Pingback from BlogMS - Official Microsoft Team Blogs : BlogMS Weekly Articles Published - 15th September 2008 to 21st September 2008

mixtomo

Medical Histories ist The perfect Goal to Data Mining! Thats thats my Answer!

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