HealthVault Data Types

As we modify existing HealthVault data types to better meet the needs of our partners, one of the issues we're examining is versioning. Consider the following situation: Application A is deployed using the current version of the Encounter type (let...

Family Health History is an update to the existing Family History data type that now gives you a way to store family member specific information such as name, relationship, and DOB and the ability to store multiple conditions for each family member. To...

Thank you everyone for the comments on this data type. We'd like to continue taking feedback over the next week on the preview version of this new data type. To help you review the type, here is a graphical representation of the current version: http...

We have now finished the design phase of the Lab Test Results data type which is intended to store, as the name implies, the results from lab tests. This data type has undergone several primary changes which include: The ability to store the...

We are planning on adding a new type named "Concern". The purpose of concern is to store the concerns that the owner of the health record currently has. Examples would include "worried about losing my hair", "concerned about my eyesight", or "I'm getting...