David Cerino (General Manager for HealthVault) told me a funny story the other day. He was on a panel at the (very cool, I was told) Healthcare Unbound conference with folks from Dossia and Google, and the conversation turned, as it often does, to "standards...

My plan had been to blog about this when the feature goes live later in the week. But there's been some online discussion already, and I'm sitting here at the horse show in waiting mode anyway, so it seems like now is as good a time as any to join the...

Today is the first day of our 2008 HealthVault Solutions Conference. I am pretty lucky at these things ... Our partner and business teams carry the brunt of the load and, except for a presentation tomorrow and a few Q&A sessions, I just get to sit...

A couple of days ago, we announced that we've expanded the size of the Be Well fund to $4.5 Million ... a 50% increase over what we had planned. We received almost 200 entries, making Be Well one of the most successful programs in Microsoft Research history...

I realized the other day that I haven't ever focused much on our search application here. But Live Search Health is a super-important part of the HealthVault ecosystem -- and something we've spent a bunch of time working on. It's inescapable that pretty...

In one of those classic if I had a nickel things ... you have no idea how many times I get asked if HealthVault is "covered" under HIPAA . The short answer to that question is, very simply, NO . HealthVault is neither a covered entity or business associate...

My Dad was a big runner for most of his adult life. When I was pretty small, I stood at the Boston Marathon finish line watching him come into sight -- he had this wobbly-armed gait that was unmistakable even from a huge distance. These days his knees...

Having lived away from Boston now for about twenty years, I've slowly lost most of my Boston habits. I signal when I change lanes, and even caught myself calling Fluff "marshmallow creme" the other day. But the one thing I've never shaken is an affinity...

It took a lot of people coordinating a whole bunch of different efforts to get the first release of HealthVault out the door. On top of the core platform, we were creating an SDK and developer experience, integrating with the LiveID system, building a...

OK, this is not my shining moment. But yes, when we set up Family Health Guy, the HealthVault marketing team offered to get it going, and I was kind of busy. So everything got put together and I happily posted away for a couple of months ... until this...

Way back when I was a Microsoft intern working on a precursor to the Jet database engine , my then-girlfriend-now-wife came out from Florida to visit for a few days. This was a big deal as I was hoping to convince her that Washington would be an "awesome...

I'm proud to say that quite a bit of the HealthVault codebase still traces its roots back to the stuff that Johnson, Jeff and I wrote back in early 2006. But the truth is, that's less and less the case every day (at least for me -- Johnson and in particular...

Have I mentioned that we've got a lot going on over here? So... well, we could really use some help getting it all done. Eric beat me to the punch with his recruiting post , but I thought I would follow with some thoughts of my own as well. One of...

There are always folks out there ready to beat up on Microsoft -- and sometimes it's well-deserved. But not always -- Fred Trotter in his most recent post makes some claims about HealthVault that are simply incorrect, so I wanted to spend a few minutes...

One of the real strengths of HealthVault is the seamless connectivity that we have with personal monitoring devices. Using the HealthVault Connection Center , I can sit down at my desk, put my arm in the cuff of my Omron blood pressure monitor , wait...

Well, here we are in Orlando and things are a-hoppin'. The sheer size of this conference is unbelievable to me -- the Microsoft booth is about as big as my house. It's a pretty surreal atmosphere as everybody tries to sell everything to everybody else...

I've been looking forward to writing this entry for quite awhile. We have been frankly thrilled by the reception that HealthVault has enjoyed since our launch just a few months ago. We've taken a few legitimate lumps over "v1" usability issues (fixes...

Data connectivity is key to HealthVault's ultimate success. Before people can do great things with consolidated health information, they have to have consolidated health information. Many great consumer-focused efforts in health fail -- not because they...

First off, who am I, and what am I doing here. My name is Sean. I'm thirty-eight years old, weigh more than I should, have a remarkable family, try to visit Disney theme parks at least twice a year, tend to vote Libertarian, and cried (just a little...