Kaiser Backs Microsoft Patient-Data Plan

July 10, 2008

Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest nonprofit health maintenance organization, is endorsing the drive toward consumer-controlled personal health records in a partnership with Microsoft.

The partnership, announced Monday, will begin with a pilot project open to Kaiser’s 156,000 employees, which will run until November. If successful, the product linking Kaiser’s patient information with Microsoft’s Health Vault personal health record service will be offered to Kaiser’s 8.7 million members in nine states and the District of Columbia.

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