About HealthVault

With healthcare stimulus in spotlight, healthcare industry has seen a buzz of activities with players ranging from software giants[Microsoft, Google, IBM etc], already established healthcare software companies[GE, Cerner, Eclipsys etc] to surging small players [eClinicalWorks etc] entering the fray for electronic health records and the ecosystem such as HIE, Electronic Records Bank etc.

With the brief intro above left behind, we will find more about HealthVault and it's impact on the healthIT ecosystem. Primarily, HealthVault can be considered as a health records bank where personal health records(PHR) are stored online and can be shared with others.

Usage of HealthVault depends on your need and purpose to access the health data on the HealthVault. It can be:
- [You are a patient] I am here to store my PHR online and i want to share it with my doctors and family members.
- [You are a doctor] I am here to view the health data of my patient and update their health record.
- [You are a software engineer] I am here to write a healthIT software(EMR, HIE) that interfaces with HealthVault data either to read or update or do both.
- [You are a healthIT manager or executive] I am here to understand how i can employ/benefit using HealthVault in my hospital/state healthIT systems.

If you are a patient or a doctor, you should read about PHR and EMR to know the benefits and visit HealthVault site for signup and usage. Primarily HealthVault allows entering health information as text, uploading past health data in CCR/CCD formats to name a few.

If you are a software engineer or healthIT manager or executive, then you are in the right place to know more about HealthVault. Check my labels cloud for more posts on HealthVault.