This has to be about the most wickedly awesome story ever. This afternoon we released details of a public-private partnership between Microsoft, the Los Angeles Department of Aging , Partners in Care Foundation , and St. Barnabas Senior Services , a non...

We’ve participated in the both the first and second Health Data Initiative forums (in 2010 we submitted a cool use case combining air quality with inpatient data , and last year I served as a community judge ). Honestly I wasn’t really sure...

Just got my copy of Vaibhav's new book: Enabling Programmable Self with HealthVault and am totally psyched. It's a super introduction for anyone looking to experiment with the HealthVault platform: a great combination of breadth/context and deep samples...

I really, really believe in HealthVault . I’m six years into the adventure, and it’s been a little more than four since the service officially launched in October 2007 . I wish everybody had a HealthVault record --- but they don’t...

Never before have I been part of a community where the ratio of “talking” to “doing” is so out of balance. The Meaningful Use Stage 2 proposed rules up the ante on patient engagement, and in a study just released by NeHC , 95%...

After getting home from HIMSS Thursday night, barely making it through work on Friday, and sleeping pretty much all day today, I’m finally feeling close to normal again. What an insane week --- our little four-person HealthVault contingent was not...

So much bubbling in the world of HealthVault … hard to keep track of it all, and I’m way behind on my things-to-post-about list. But I have to pop this one to the top because it is just totally awesome. I’ve posted many times about...

I’m quite excited to be able to point you at Ali Emami’s inaugural post over at the HealthVault developer blog. Ali has taken on the role of technical lead for the HealthVault app platform --- meaning that he’ll spend all day making...

Working on HealthVault is just a ton of fun. There are lots of reasons for this --- helping real people live better lives is a pretty good gig --- but a key one comes down to the people on the team. Folks just seem to go the extra mile and it makes for...

This year at HIMSS the Microsoft Health Users Group will be presenting it's fifteenth annual awards for innovation in healthcare technology. It's a cool program and a great way to get visibility for successful apps and programs. Nominations are open now...

At first I was bothered by this eWeek article "Microsoft HealthVault's Survival Uncertain With Advent of GE Joint Venture" --- but then I realized Brian was just sending a secret message with his tweet: "Microsoft HealthVault certain win in health...

Wow! We had a great turnout for our HealthVault "State of the Union" webinar on Friday --- it was super-fun to share some of the ideas we've got for getting personal health to critical mass in 2012, and making HealthVault integration the obvious choice...

Today marks the 10 th year of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Initiative --- which started in 2002 with Bill Gates saying ENOUGH to the wave of security issues that started to explode in the new millennium as the Internet became ubiquitous. A...

On Friday, January 13 th from 9-10am Pacific time, we’ll be holding our first “State of the Union” webinar for the HealthVault community, and I hope you’ll join us! This will be a pretty informal session. I’ll talk a bit...

Right now I’m at 35,000 feet, winging my way across the Pacific towards Oahu on a family vacation we’ve all been looking forward to for a long time now. This’ll be our first time to Ko Olina and I’m totally looking forward to sitting...

Much like families that celebrate both Christmas and Chanukah this time of year, the Nolans are a mixed-platform family. Connor and I use mostly Windows stuff, but Alex and Lara are all Apple, all the time. So while I’ve been crowing about our new...

I am stunned at how many folks have already installed our brand new HealthVault app for Windows Phone . Forget any questions I may have had about the momentum of the mobile platforms; this is where the world is going. The app is meant to be a handy...

This is a great day for Microsoft in Health --- the future for Amalga couldn't be brighter (get it, that's a GE lightbulb joke) and I was thrilled to send the note below to our HealthVault ecosystem partners earlier today. I'm all in --- and having a...

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year. It’s just the right combination of family and friends, food and low-stress activity to reinforce the purpose --- a time to reflect on how incredibly lucky we are, and how we might share a bit of that...

Whenever I need a pick-me-up at work, one of my favorite things to do is to surf around on our “Partner App Reviews” site. Before any HealthVault application can “go live,” our support team reviews the experience against a list...

I’m really proud of the emergency preparedness feature we launched a few weeks ago . Our approach of making a shared profile available in multiple emergency settings (wallet cards, online codes, MedicAlert , Vitaband , etc.) is really resonating...

For me, losing weight is pretty straightforward. Not easy, but straightforward. Eat less than 1,500 calories per day and I’ll start losing. Exercise and it will accelerate a tad. Problem is, tracking calories is a huge pain. This isn’t a new...

Ryan Champlin over at Cook Children’s is a really neat guy. He and his team are super-focused on creating solutions that make things better. They don’t get confused by what’s hard, or not perfect, or messy --- not when the end result...

Since 2006 we’ve been building towards a pretty bold vision of families using HealthVault to make their lives healthier, safer and happier. We’ve built a ton of plumbing to set the stage for Microsoft and our partners to realize that promise...

Often towards the end of the day, I wander into Umesh's office, sit down with a sigh and lament how much of my time was spent in meetings vs. writing code. It's kind of a ritual --- he typically counters with a story about some new coding fad or technology...