HealthVault: No Commitments and a Sleeping Watchdog.

Has Microsoft committed to keeping the promises that it has already made? No, just the opposite. Their privacy policy concludes:“We may occasionally update this privacy statement” Which means that when the commitments that Microsoft has made regarding HealthVault become inconvenient, they will simply change them. Will the data that you enter into HealthVault be secure? […]

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HealthVault: Abusing vs Implementing Standards.

Microsoft, of all the companies that might consider creating a PHR, is especially problematic. Microsoft has a long history of standards abuse. Lets consider a parallel issue to the “personal health record”, personal email. I use gmail and have used yahoo mail in the past, but for this example lets pretend that I used Hotmail, […]

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HealthVault: Failing the seven generations test

(note: This is the first of my “week of HealthVault” articles.) HealthVault, the new Personal Health Record (PHR) from Microsoft, along with Googles coming PHR offering, fail the seven generations test. I did not come up with the idea of “seven generations”, pay attention the next time you go to the grocery store and you […]

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