Life sciences briefing: Monday, Feb. 25, 2008
TODAY’S HEADLINES:
Microsoft launches $3M fund to support online health-improvement tools (release)
Clarus Ventures raises $660M life-sciences fund (release)
Iverson Genetics raises $1.1M for blood-clotting tests, seeks $9.3M more (VentureWire)
Upstart Ventures aims for $30M fund to seed Utah life-science ventures (release)
CalHealth takes in $750K for blood-pressure monitoring (VW)
Regenerative medicine co. Organogenesis acquires NanoMatrix (release)
Electronic health-record firm MediNotes acquires Bond Technologies (release)
Eclipsys acquires Enterprise Performance for healthcare financial-management (release)
Healthcare analytics firm Urix acquires Predicted Solutions (release)
Microsoft launches $3M fund… Continue Reading
Google Health launching soon?
Trust the reliable folks over at Google Blogoscoped to unearth a login page for the long-awaited Google Health service before it actually launches. Neither the login nor any of the links on the page seem to work, but it’s another tantalizing glimpse at what Google may soon be unveiling.
It’s worth noting that Marissa Mayer, who took over the Google Health project after Adam Bosworth unceremoniously decamped to launch his own health-related startup, said last… Continue Reading
Does Microsoft’s HealthVault really protect your privacy?
When Microsoft launched its much-ballyhooed HealthVault medical-records system for individuals (see my review here), it made such a fetish of security protections that it virtually rendered the service unusable. My own effort just to establish a HealthVault account took roughly two hours, much of that devoted to simply coming up with a password the system would accept; I documented the struggle here. One of the company’s PR reps even emailed me to note that Microsoft… Continue Reading
Microsoft’s HealthVault puts your medical records online and in your hands — sort of
In a previous post, I set out to review Microsoft’s new health-related Web services, including its new online medical-record system, HealthVault. Plans went awry, however, when it took close to two hours simply to register for the service, so I decided to review the medical-records system in this post.
Microsoft clearly has grand plans for HealthVault, the main page of which you can see by clicking the thumbnail at left. Not only has it beaten rival… Continue Reading
Microsoft’s HealthVault lets you manage your health records — badly
Microsoft has finally unveiled its first stab at managing personal health records on the Web, and it’s an interesting, if underwhelming, effort to give people control over their personal health information, writes David Hamilton, over at VentureBeat LifeSciences.
His full, first-take review on the service is here.
Microsoft appears to have sacrificed initial quality in exchange for pulling off the coup of beating Google’s similar project to the table. The rush to aggregate personal information doesn’t stop… Continue Reading
Microsoft launches HealthVault to manage your health search and medical records — but it will hurt a bit
UPDATED: See below. Also, this is now part one of a two-part post; for the second part, which actually reviews the HealthVault service, click here.
Microsoft has finally unveiled its first stab at managing personal health records on the Web, and it’s an interesting, if underwhelming, attempt to realize a future in which individuals have much more control over their personal health information.
Called HealthVault, the Microsoft offering combines yet another healthcare-info search engine with the record-storage application… Continue Reading