Update (11/17) : Updated sample with additional goal status information. Update (11/30): We have received initial feedback from partners and updated this proposal to add reference-id to tasks, and goals.  A number of partner use cases and scenarios...

Update (11/17): Changed Category to optional, and When to approx-datetime Update (1/25): Based on further feedback we decided to create two types – Health Journal Entry (focused on enabling a user to journal daily health experiences) and Comment (focused...

A number of partner scenarios have warranted us to create a type which stores an occurrence of a Health event in a consumers life. Consider the case of baby development stages. A parent would like to record various events in various developmental categories...

Update (7/26/2011): Added more proposed updates after feedback from partners. The HealthVault Medical Image Study data type enables our customers to store medical image studies in HealthVault. Over last few months, we got feedback from partners and are...

Positive Airway Pressure (PAP) Session is a new data type for storing session data recorded by PAP devices. These devices are commonly used in the treatment of sleep apnea. The data is intended to assist users and physicians with tracking the progress...

Thank you to everyone who provided scenarios, samples and ideas for this data type. Here is the draft version of this new HealthVault data type. This schema is intended to store the summary and detail you, the plan member, might find on a typical paper...

Would your HealthVault application benefit from being able to create or consume EOB data in a HealthVault record? If so, we'd like to hear from you. We're in the research and design phase of creating a new HealthVault data type to store EOB data and are...

See the HealthVault Data Type Wiki for current information on using this type. This document contains general guidelines for using the Cholesterol Profile data type. It covers the members of the data type where we believe guidance is most useful, and...

See the HealthVault Data Type Wiki for current information on using this type. This document contains general guidelines for using the Lab Test Results data type. It covers the members of the data type where we believe guidance is most useful, and...

See the HealthVault Data Type Wiki for current information on using this type. This document contains general guidelines for using the Immunization data type. It covers the members of the data type where we believe guidance is most useful, and does...

We've had several requests for a new data type to store medical images and we are now at a point in our research and design that we'd like to hear from our larger HealthVault community. We've found that DICOM is the generally accepted format for storing...

See the HealthVault Data Type Wiki for current information on using this type. This document contains general guidelines for using the PeakFlow data type. It does not cover all the information that is stored in the type – see the PeakFlow documentation...

See the HealthVault Data Type Wiki for current information on using this type. This document contains general guidelines for using the Exercise and AerobicSession data types. It does not cover all the information that is stored in the type –...

See the HealthVault Data Type Wiki for current information on using this type. This document contains general guidelines for using the Pregnancy data type. It does not cover all the information that is stored in the type – see the Pregnancy member...

See the HealthVault Data Type Wiki for current information on using this type. This document contains general guidelines for using the GeneticSnpResults data type. It does not cover all the information that is stored in the type – see the GeneticSnpResults...

The HealthVault comma-separated data format is used to store data in a space-efficient format in the other-data section of data types. The actual data types provide a layer of abstraction on top of the comma-separated types, and it is recommended that...

If you haven't already read through the proposed changes for this data type, please take a look at: http://blogs.msdn.com/healthvaultdatatypes/archive/2008/09/17/for-review-updates-to-spirometer-measurement.aspx Here is a draft version of the updated...

LabTestResults ltr = new LabTestResults (); ltr.OrderedBy = new Organization ( "39502605" ); ltr.When = new ApproximateDateTime ( "2008-01-26 20:05:00.000" ); LabTestResultGroup grp = new LabTestResultGroup ( new CodableValue ( "CBC With Differential...

In working with some of you, we’ve determined that the Spriometer Measurement data type is serving a bit of double-duty in its current form. As it turns out, there are two primary but very different types of measurements that this data type is currently...

This is a new data type designed to store pregnancy related information. The Pregnancy data type supplements (and would be related to) existing data types like appointments, conditions and medications to help with scenarios that a consumer might find...

This type is intended to store the results of a genetic SNP test. If you want to know more about what a SNP is, I recommend reading the NCBI primer . The data stored in this type is fairly simple – a small amount of metadata, and then a large list of...

Please comment on the following proposal… Some types of data – such as exercise sample data or genetic test data – store large amounts of data. Storing that data in an XML format involves a considerable amount of overhead, and the data is therefore stored...

See the HealthVault Data Type Wiki for current information on using this type. This document contains general guidelines for using the Question answer data type. It does not cover all the information that is stored in the type – see the QuestionAnswer...

See the HealthVault Data Type Wiki for current information on using this type. This document contains general guidelines for using the BloodOxygenSaturation data type. It does not cover all the information that is stored in the type – see the...

See the HealthVault Data Type Wiki for current information on using this type. This document contains general guidelines for using the HeartRate data type. It does not cover all the information that is stored in the type – see the HeartRate documentation...