A few weeks after signing a deal that makes it possible to share information between the Microsoft HealthVault system and the Kaiser Permanente health network, Microsoft has signed a similar deal with AT&T and Compuware subsidiary Covisint.
AT&T and Covisint work together to provide a system that lets participating doctors call up electronic patient records on their computers. Now patients who store their health records on any HealthVault compatible system will be able to share with doctors on the Covisint network.
A press release from all three of the companies doesn’t say how many docs currently use the AT&T and Covisint system, but it does provide some detail about what the partnership will allow docs and their patients to do:
The new exchange platform brings together the key elements required to establish comprehensive interoperability and collaboration communities for national, state and local health-information exchanges, enabling such applications as:
· Prescribing pharmaceuticals online (also known as “ePrescribing”).
· Providing clinical messaging among health care providers.
· Sharing high-density images, including X-rays, MRIs and CT scans.
· Exchanging patient-aggregated information via portable health records, which provides patient profiles, medical history, prescriptions, etc.
· Uploading of data from home health devices such as blood pressure meters, glucometers, etc., allowing for remote diagnostics and chronic disease monitoring and management.
· A streamlined clinical and administrative process.
I just hope partnerships like this encourage more doctors to use electronic records that are compatible with services like HealthVault and Google Health. Electronic records, as I have written before, save lives.
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