I’m not condoning MS in their expedition to try and create a monopoly in what everyone does on their computers, but I think this system could have great potential. Yes, it could be more user-friendly, yes it could have a few tweaks, but look at everything that first starts out. Give it time, if it bombs, they’ll get rid of it.

Besides all that, gov. is already pushing big time for centralized electronic medical records in order to reduce the healthcare cost wher 60-70% cost is associated with administrative overhead. Many insurance companies have already implemented similar systems and are sharing medicals records with health care providers and other insurnace companies without the knowledge of a common person like me and you. Right now these initiaves are small, fragmented and not well coordinated. Moreover because of compliance issues and fears, very few companies want to play in this space. I think only big players like MS, Google, Oracle, IBM etc. have the resources and know how to build this kind of systems and sustain them.

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There have been a few times when, in perusing the Google News site, it has appeared to me that stories that show their main competitor, Microsoft, in a bad light get prominent coverage, but good news not as much. Yesterday settled any doubts I had abou…

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It’s all about innovation and security and their are no one better in the marketplace to do this right, remember it is all about funding (money) and Microsoft has that.

You can be the smartest guy in the world with all the right intention and still be dead broke, some would say “that’s life” and they are right.

Now let me trow in a different point of view.

In stead of supporting and promoting this whole “Health Industry” oh well I call it “sick industry”, we should start focusing on getting away from the BIG PHARMA. The pharmaceutical industry has too much power and the FDA the controlling arm are totally in their pocket, like it or not. No media will ever go after any of these illegalities that are happening because if they did they would be loosing advertising dollars and that’s what drives this whole sick industry.

What we as a whole need to do, is getting away from taking all this poison that are being advertised by Big Pharma as we couldn’t live without it. The facts are that by supporting the pharmaceutical industry we will never get away from being sick in the first place and that’s what it is all about, isn’t it.

Microsoft’s intention are good and I applaud that, but by supporting this form of business is something we should stay away from.

I have NO INTENTION to fall into the hands of BIG PHARMA that being through the doctor or Microsoft. Too many people dies every year because of all this poison that are being sold and it is no wonder why our doctor always say “come visit me at my practice or if you don’t think this is a treatment for you I RECOMMEND that you get a second opinion”, oh my goodness we have all been lured into believing that what the doctor says is the right thing for us. Wanner be healthy and stay healthy, start with taking responsibility of your own life http://www.FeelGood365.com remember it’s all in the name…
Now you decide, after all you are not an animal.

Let me strenghten my password to start entering my records there!

HAHAHAHAH

Retards!

1) The Feds have tried in the past (with some success) to force phone companies and search engines to turn over data about their customers’ phone calls and searching habits
2) The Feds are in bed with the health insurance companies (without a real care in the world about the 47 + million U.S. citizens who can’t even obtain or afford basic health insurance)
3) We’re supposed to feel “secure” about storing our personal health information in an online “vault” that can be subject to government subpeona at any time, and
4) We should blindly assume that this information “vault” will never be abused by the government or the health insurance companies for their financial gain?

Things that make you go hmmmmm………..

Personalized health records are a major step forward in creating value for the patient (although I’m not ratifying MS’s first attempt at it). Proper data management is desperately needed in the health industry, and when a good solution is implemented patients will be much better served. I couldn’t disagree more with your dismissals of key health paradigms.

Early treatment of symptoms=Better health. This is true for many key diseases; think cancer, atherosclerosis, cardiac issues, diabetes, etc. Your example of anti-biotics for the common cold is nonsense. This reflects more of MD’s inability to understand the difference between viruses and bacteria and/or understand the therapeutics they prescribe.

Better information=Better health. This is also very true for many key diseases (mainly for the same diagnostic reasons above). Further, if we had more information about human biology (think biomarkers), we would be much better at designing and administering therapeutics.

Not to be too argumentative, but the general public puts a lot of weight on MDs opinion of health care…
(btw. Canada should be ashamed for having a National health-care system, yet still relying so heavily on non-digital forms of record keeping.).