Microsoft offers personal health records website

It seems that the next frontier for many technology and web companies is to launch a service that lets individuals track their health stats and associated knowledge on the web. We all have our lives on the web besides these days, right?

Microsoft has joined Google as a company that wants to help you manage your own medical and health knowledge with the launch of a service final week to do just that. The problem is that the confidentiality of that kind of sensitive knowledge becomes suspect when a technology provider starts handling it instead of a medical practitioner. Well, perhaps.

Do you need your own medical knowledge stored on a website (albeit, a secure

one), or would you prefer that knowledge stay as is in the venue of your doctor’s office? How could an offering like that help you as a patient?

Original post by Brian White

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