10/22/2008 News For: Redmond HealthAetna and Microsoft HealthVault Empower Aetna Members to Create a Portable Record of Their Personal Health HARTFORD, Conn. & REDMOND, Wash.----Aetna and Microsoft Corp. today announced a collaboration to provide Aetna members with portability of their personal health information. Aetna members will soon be able to transfer the information in their Aetna CareEngine?-powered Personal Health Record directly to Microsoft HealthVault, a security-enhanced, Web-based consumer health platform. Health care plans: Obama vs. McCain Republican presidential nominee John McCain and Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama have dramatically divergent visions of how to reshape the health insurance system. Health Highlights: Oct. 22, 2008 Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: Health Content Wars: Microsoft Bests Google With Aetna, Yahoo Beefs Up Through Partnerships Microsoft continues to line up HealthVault partners: the latest is Connecticut-based health insurer Aetna. Members currently using Aetna's electronic Personal Health Record feature will be able to transfer those records to HealthVault next month. UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News Post-transplant steroid therapy: Unneeded? ... Physicists discover new state of matter ... Study seeks new cancer immunotherapy ... Study: Ripe bananas look blue in UV light ... Health/Science news from UPI. Aetna and Microsoft HealthVault Empower Aetna Members to Create a Portable Record of Their Personal Health Aetna NYSE: AET and Microsoft Corp. today announced a collaboration to provide Aetna members with portability of their personal health information. Aetna members will soon be able to transfer the information in their Aetna CareEngineR-powered Personal Health Record PHR directly to Microsoft HealthVault, a security-enhanced, Web-based consumer health platform. Information stored in ... Hearing set on Illinois universal health care bill GRANITE CITY - The public is invited to offer comments at a public hearing Thursday on pending state legislation that would establish a statewide single-payer health insurance plan that would cover all Illinois residents. Children and Health Coverage Studied More than two million children in the U.S. who have no health insurance of any kind have at least one parent who gets employer-provided medical coverage, researchers said. PERSPECTIVE: Election 2008: Slowing the Growth of Health Care Costs -- Learning from International Experience High health care expenditures and the growing number of people without health insurance set the United States apart from all other industrialized countries. The United States spends twice per capita ... Health boards ordered to apologise to patient?s family Two health boards have been told to apologise to the family of a pensioner who underwent a operation to cure her cancer - when in fact the disease was so advanced the operation could never have saved her. |




