Mayo Clinic, Microsoft Team on Patient Health Record Plus
Mayo Clinic is extending its brand across the country. This time, it is offering a free personal health record on the Microsoft HealthVault platform. The Mayo Clinical Health Manager , as the PHR is known, will provide not only a secure place to store medical records online, but also guidance from Mayo experts that will be tailored to the information contained in that PHR. If you are a 50-year-old man with diabetes and hypertension, for example, you will receive information about how you should take care of those conditions and the tests you should receive. Initially, Mayo Clinic Health Manager will include tools and features that help consumers manage pediatric and adult wellness, immunizations, pregnancy and asthma. Forthcoming features will help users with type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, and/or high blood pressure. According to Mayo’s press kit , PHR users will be able to “transfer data directly into [a] Mayo Clinic Health Manager profile from a wide range of providers, devices...