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HealthVault is currently partnering with many other healthcare companies and organizations and has interactivity with their web sites. That will allow the public to store information such as, blood pressure, blood glucose, hospital discharge documents, in-case-of-emergency medical records, exercise endurance training information, diet and nutritional information, medication prescription information, and lab test results on HealthVault. Is that beneficial for patients' health care?
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1.11/20/2007 8:39:00 PMI think it is good to have all the info centralized in one place.
2.11/22/2007 5:03:00 PMCould have more info than is helpful
3.11/22/2007 7:20:00 PMmaybe, depends on the patient..
4.11/22/2007 8:40:00 PMMaximum value will be achieved by data interaction, not just data storage as images. Data elements depend upon a universally agreed upon deictionary. Mere image storage is better than no data, but is only a Level 2 medical record. (Medical Records Institute scale).
5.11/22/2007 9:19:00 PMHow would anyone know that such information was accurate?
6.11/22/2007 9:36:00 PMyes, depending on security
7.11/23/2007 12:08:00 AMI would worry that eventually third parties would get access somehow.
8.11/23/2007 12:48:00 AMcould be
9.11/23/2007 12:49:00 AMShould be with the proviso above
10.11/23/2007 1:20:00 AMpossibly, need more information
11.11/23/2007 2:15:00 AMimmmunizations and imaging are the most important
12.11/23/2007 8:22:00 AMit depends on the internal organization of the records within health vault
13.11/23/2007 2:20:00 PMsecurity and privacy are paramount; how secure is the privacy issue? Do insurance companies and the government have access to the system?
14.11/23/2007 5:14:00 PMsome of it--like many web applications lots of KNowledge poor while information rich
15.11/23/2007 6:00:00 PMYes
16.11/23/2007 6:59:00 PM(There will need to be a good way of organizing what could fast become piles of useless data....)
17.11/23/2007 7:30:00 PMAgain, if there are not too many omissions engineered by the patient
18.11/23/2007 10:59:00 PMCertainly could be, depending on the &quot;motive&quot; of other organizations and companies.
19.11/24/2007 12:36:00 PMpossibly
20.11/25/2007 2:53:00 AMI am a little &quot;out of the box&quot; and was in favor of low carb diets, against indiscriminate stents, etc., before professional opinion shifted. I don't want to have to compete with many of these (commercially driven) practice methods any more than I now do and I don't want to add legitimacy to them. I'll be the doctor and Microsoft the storage site.
21.11/25/2007 1:35:00 PMThe more access the worse security. in my practice this includes pregnancy tests, Pap smears, HPV and STD info.
22.11/26/2007 4:17:00 AMAs long as the information is reliable
23.11/26/2007 2:28:00 PMSome of these might not be necesary
24.11/27/2007 1:16:00 AMalso is potentially dangerous for a hypochondriac patient or one that misinterprets results
25.11/27/2007 10:17:00 PMKeeping the information current, especially the meds is important but extremely difficult.
26.11/28/2007 12:41:00 AMthe patients need to learn to be responsible