HealthVault

HealthVault + Your Web Service + Your Client Apps

2013-06-03T06:21:00Z

Cloud hosted services such as HealthVault, Windows Azure, Office365, Dynamics Online, and others provide a great canvas upon which to compose both consumer and enterprise solutions. In this article, we'll establish a foundation upon which to "front-end" a number of HealthVault solution scenarios. We'll illustrate the use of a web-service (hosted on Windows Azure, of course) to encapsulate HealthVault specific feature-areas that we subsequently wish to expose for our client applications. In a subsequent...(read more)

HealthVault Library for Windows Store C#/XAML Sample

2013-05-26T05:30:00Z

The HealthVault for Windows Store application is now among the most popular Windows Store applications. You can utilize the same underlying class library to develop your own HealthVault integrated Windows Store solutions. A recent blog post details availability and usage of the HealthVault Library for Windows 8 . The library itself is available via Codeplex and includes library source files along with a WinJS (i.e. JavaScript) sample application. See Doris Chen’s recent article for a comprehensive...(read more)

Revisiting Connectivity Models and Solutions Architectures

2013-05-19T02:57:00Z

Over the past few weeks, we’ve participated in healthcare solution development events at the University of Louisiana and in Silicon Valley . These events were designed to spark healthcare informatics innovation using team-competition and incentives, including cash prizes. We enjoyed many aspects of these events ( Fred Trotter’s soap-box session stands-out) and consider it a privilege to have met so many dedicated and wonderful people. As I observed event participants discussing and prototyping...(read more)

HealthVault at Convergence

2013-03-29T21:34:00Z

The HealthVault team recently presented session CSCRM26 at the annual Microsoft Dynamics Convergence conference. Our session is entitled Improving Healthcare Outcomes with Microsoft Dynamics CRM & HealthVault . Specifically, we demonstrated a chronic condition population management clinical system solution composed using online platform services including Microsoft HealthVault and Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Our solution utilizes HealthVault/CRM “plug-ins” for implementation of a clinical...(read more)

Health Technology Forum: Toronto

2013-03-28T17:00:23Z

The recently organized Toronto chapter of the Health Technology Forum has created a Meet-Up portal for their members. In their own words… At our local meet-ups, we discuss real-life technology use-cases from hospitals, doctor offices, medical billing, insurance, remote monitoring, pharmaceuticals, health-and-wellness, individuals, proactive and engaged patients, and various patient-care services. Subject matter experts, users, entrepreneurs, regulators, and providers will address each...(read more)

HealthVault for Windows is now live in the Windows Store!

2013-03-07T02:36:32Z

See the new HealthVault app for Windows available now via the Windows Store. The native Windows application enables consumers to view and edit their HealthVault accounts using Windows 8 devices including Windows Surface. Application Developers may also utilize the HealthVault Library for Windows 8 to create their own Windows Store HealthVault applications. We will be updating the project on Codeplex soon! ...(read more)

New HealthVault Windows Store App at HiMSS

2013-03-05T15:37:56Z

Ready for Windows 8 and the Windows Store application market-place? Join us at the HiMSS conference this week, March 3-7, for a demonstration of our new Windows Store HealthVault application. Consumers will soon be able to install the HealthVault application directly from the Windows Store . Application Developers may also utilize the HealthVault Library for Windows 8 to create their own Windows Store applications for HealthVault. We will be updating...(read more)

Resources for Code-Fest Innovators

2013-02-21T03:12:06Z

A number of HealthCare technology code-fest events are underway. This coming weekend, we’ll be participating in the “ Hacking Health ” code-fest in Vancouver, BC. We’re also planning to join the “ Cajun Code-Fest ” in Lafayette, LA, in April. HealthVault, has a lot to offer as a platform for innovative healthcare technology solutions. If you are planning to attend any of these events, please note the following resources. This short-list should help...(read more)

A HealthVault Application Development Primer using ASP.NET MVC

2013-02-18T19:18:00Z

The HealthVault platform provides several application connectivity models supporting a variety of workflow experiences. For example, a typical on-premises healthcare clinical system may require a semi-automated HealthVault workflow involving direct patient interactions. Alternatively, an analytical application may require minimal user-interactions and rather a fully-automated offline HealthVault interaction workflow. In practice, most full-featured HealthVault solutions implement a combination of...(read more)

Microsoft HealthVault at the 2013 HiMSS Conference

2013-02-15T18:58:41Z

The HealthVault team will be participating in a number of venues at the conference in New Orleans, March 3-7. We invite you to meet us at the Microsoft Exhibit (booth #1127) or register for any of the following ancillary events. Microsoft will also be participating in a number of sessions listed within the conference session catalog. The Microsoft Experience Center at HiMSS will be available for Microsoft Customer visitation from Monday afternoon through Wednesday...(read more)