Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Browse by Tags

All Tags » HealthVault   (RSS)
Friday, June 19, 2009 3:41 PM

Introduction to HealthVault Development #12: More than one person…

WeightTracker has gotten popular, and we have a new scenario. Our users would like us to extend our application so that they can easily enter weights for each member of the family. This will require us to delve a bit more deeply into users, records, and
Posted by ericgu | 0 Comments
Filed under: ,
Monday, June 15, 2009 2:03 PM

Rekeying the HealthVault/Amalga USB Key

If you attended the connected health conference last week, you got a USB key with a combination lock on it, so you could protect your important data against those with less than 10 minutes of free time, or those with very little imagination. But to get
Posted by ericgu | 0 Comments
Filed under:
Thursday, June 11, 2009 12:23 PM

Suggest a HealthVault topic...

Is there something about HealthVault that you find confusing? If so, add a comment to this post, and I'll try to cover it in a future blog post.
Posted by ericgu | 1 Comments
Filed under:
Friday, April 17, 2009 3:14 PM

Introduction to HealthvaultDevelopment #11: Data filtering

The users are unhappy. The weight tracking application worked pretty well initially, but now that they’ve been using it daily for a few months, it’s showing them too much information. They would like it to show the recent results. That will take us into
Posted by ericgu | 2 Comments
Filed under: ,
Friday, March 13, 2009 5:12 PM

Introduction to HealthVault Development #10: Adding additional data to healthvault

We have a new user request. One of our users would like to store how hungry he whenever he enters a weight value. We head off to the HealthVault MSDN page , go to the learn page and then the reference page , and then choose HealthRecordItem Type Schema
Posted by ericgu | 3 Comments
Filed under: ,
Friday, March 06, 2009 1:54 PM

Introduction to HealthVault Development #9: Optional Authorization

This week, we have a new customer request. One of our customers wants to track her mood on a daily basis. We can do this by using the Emotion data type, but after talking with our broader customer base, we find that some of them don’t want this information
Posted by ericgu | 2 Comments
Filed under: ,
Friday, February 27, 2009 4:44 PM

Introduction to HealthVault Development #8: Related items

Our current application allows users to track their weight, but some of our users also want to track the time they spend walking. In this episode, we’ll extend our application to store and display that information. We will be storing that information
Posted by ericgu | 4 Comments
Filed under: ,
Friday, February 20, 2009 4:16 PM

Introduction to HealthVault Development #7 – Data provenance

After our application is “in the wild” for a while, we receive some strange reports from our users. Some of the weight data being displayed appears to be suspect, and after investigation we find out that some of our users are also running an application
Posted by ericgu | 5 Comments
Filed under: ,
Friday, February 06, 2009 2:48 PM

Introduction to HealthVault Development #6 – Fixing a mistake

After we’ve released our application, some of our users complained that they accidentally entered an incorrect weight, and would like to have a way of fixing it. We will therefore extend our application to be able to update a weight. We’re going to do
Posted by ericgu | 2 Comments
Filed under: ,
Friday, January 30, 2009 11:32 AM

Introduction to HealthVault Development #5 – Do I weigh too much?

A common question asked by people is “do I weigh too much”, so we’re going to add the calculation of BMI to our application. <aside> The question of what a person’s desirable weight is – or even if there is a desirable weight – is one with lots
Posted by ericgu | 2 Comments
Filed under: ,
Friday, January 23, 2009 9:03 AM

Introduction to HealthVault Development #4 – Storing and retrieving weights

We are now ready to make our WeightTracker application do something useful. That something useful is composed of two stories: The user enters a weight, and it’s stored to the user’s HealthVault record The weight measurements in the user’s record are displayed
Posted by ericgu | 3 Comments
Filed under: ,
Friday, January 16, 2009 3:14 PM

Introduction to HealthVault Development #3: Configuring our application

Now that we have HelloWorld set up and running, we want to move on to developing the real application. We’ll start with a shell application and add to it as we go. Download the WeightTracker shell , and open the project in Visual Studio. Register the
Posted by ericgu | 3 Comments
Filed under: ,
Thursday, January 08, 2009 1:51 PM

Introduction to HealthVault Development #2: Hello World

In this post, we’ll create an account on the HealthVault system, open up the HelloWorld sample application, and verify that it works on our system. There are two live HealthVault platforms. A developer platform at http://www.healthvault-ppe.com . This
Posted by ericgu | 1 Comments
Filed under: ,
Thursday, January 08, 2009 11:23 AM

Introduction to HealthVault Development #1: Introduction

Welcome to the tutorial. In this tutorial, we will develop a HealthVault application from scratch. My intention is to add new tutorial chapters on a roughly weekly basis, though I have a few ones queued up and already to go. If you haven’t located the
Posted by ericgu | 2 Comments
Filed under: ,
Thursday, January 08, 2009 10:54 AM

Introduction to HealthVault Development #0: Background

Coding without a net Over the years, I’ve attended a number of talks that show you how easy it is to use a new component, using canned projects, pre-written code that is cut-and-pasted in, and contrived scenarios. In the early years of .NET, I saw a different
Posted by ericgu | 2 Comments
Filed under: ,
More Posts Next page »
 
Page view tracker