My Personal Health Record (PHR) in Microsoft’s Health Vault – Confessions of an “Early Adopter”!

This blogpost was first published on the 10th of October, 2007.

Milestone: This blogpost was referenced and the author quoted by the Washington Post in an article entitled, ‘New Ways to Manage Health Data’, March 2008.

It is a well known and incredibly shocking fact that inability to access vital, accurate and current health information especially in an emergency (usually an unforeseen event like a cardiac attack, stroke, seizure etc.) on time, leads to the loss of well over 80,000 lives in the United States alone! I actually experienced this pain while helping my 72 year old father with his triple bypass surgery in India, in May of this year. (more…)