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www.HealthcareITNews.com industry news February 2008 ■ Healthcare IT News Microsoft, Mayo clinic team up on personal health records By DIaNa MaNos, Senior Editor - Microsoft and the Mayo Clinic have partnered to provide patients with the power to manage their own personal health records. Mayo Clinic Health Solutions and Microsoft’s Health Solutions Group say they will collaborate on developing tools to facilitate closer patient-to-physician connections. “We are committed to finding new technology solutions that put the patient and consumer in control,” said Brooks roCHeSter, mn Edwards, MD, chief medical officer of Mayo Clinic Health Solutions. “Our work with Microsoft is an exciting opportunity to create tools that empower patients to be in the very center of their own healthcare environment.” Peter Neupert, corporate vice president of the Redmond, Wash. -based Microsoft Health Solutions Group, said consumers demand and deserve tools that make their lives easier, Gigante Vaz gv85866a Proof 1 facilitate communication and help them take action to manage their health. “Building on the Microsoft HealthDeborah Peel, MD, founder of the Vault platform, our groups are comPatient Privacy Rights Foundation, mitted to providing individuals with one of 50 organizations that comprise solutions that are dynamic, secure and the Coalition for Patient Privacy, said focused on the needs of the user, in the system is the first to pass muster order to effectively improve health and with the coalition’s tough standards well-being,” Neupert said. for patient privacy. Microsoft’s partnership with Peter Neupert The two industry giants said they the Mayo Clinic will use Microsoft’s newly hope to announce further details on the announced HealthVault, technology sup- project before the end of this year. ■ ported by healthcare providers, patient More at HealthcareITNews.com activists and device manufacturers. e ●Connect: Mayo 0208 MaNos Continued from page 5 sight with hope of passing have gnarly knots of dissention wedged deep into them. And the biggest knot of all is privacy. Policy experts on all sides of the issue predict Congress will use electronic prescribing, or e-prescribing, as the potentially easiest and least threatening avenue to get healthcare IT rolling. However, privacy activists vow something akin to “over their dead bodies” will they allow anything to pass without patients in total control of their records. Lisa Gallagher, senior director of privacy and security at the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) argues that what privacy activists often want is not always what is practical or even possible in the real world. In a December letter to key Senate leaders, HIMSS said any new healthcare IT legislation needs to be drafted carefully to avoid inadvertently creating situations that could endanger patients’ safety, or negatively affect the provider’s ability to deliver quality care in a timely fashion. Perhaps the complexity and delicacy of privacy issues engendered a desire for the Senate to attempt to pass the most promising healthcare IT bill, the Wired for Healthcare Quality Act, without open floor debate last December. 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Call 1-877-INSCRYBE or visit www.inscrybe.com ● aHIMa Continued from page 8 AHIMA is also offering a documentary with “real-life” stories to help consumers relate to the everyday necessity of managing their PHRs. “Having championed this cause to overwhelming success throughout the HIM profession, our member-volunteers are expanding the field to include consumers in a way that can only lead to healthier, longer, happier lives with each PHR we help create,” said Marsha Dolan, co-chairman of AHIMA’s Personal Health Records Practice Council. AHIMA represents more than 51,000 certified health information management professionals working throughout the healthcare industry. 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