Kaiser Permanente and Microsoft Corp. announced June 9 that the two companies will pilot health data transfers between Kaiser Permanente’s My Health Manager and Microsoft’s Health Vault consumer health platform. The program is expected to unveil new strategies for expanding consumer access to online health information and management tools.
Connecting My Health Manager to the HealthVault platform will allow users to combine personal health information from Kaiser and other sources, including health and wellness management applications and devices such as blood pressure monitors.
Kaiser’s 159,000 employees will be eligible to participate in the pilot program. Participation in the employee pilot is voluntary and is designed to test the ability to transfer data easily and securely, and ensure that the functionality allows easy access to individual personal health information, as well as the ability to manage those data. If the pilot is successful, the program will be expanded to include Kaiser Permanentes more than 8 million members. Read the press release.
