The Cloud-Based Personal Health Record

ID Number: G00158181

13 June 2008

Wes Rishel

Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault use cloud-based computing to create a disruptive approach to improving healthcare by maintaining consumers' lifetime personal health records. The potential high rewards of this approach are matched by a need to ensure that public policy goals are not lost.

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Table of Contents

Analysis

1.0

Context

1.1		Benefits
1.2		Approach
1.3		Jurisdictional Implications

2.0

Consumer Confidentiality

3.0

Competition With Government Programs

4.0

Disenfranchisement of Disadvantaged Subpopulations

5.0

Constraints on Trade Created by Proprietary Standards

5.1		Making Open Consensus Standards Work
5.2		Jurisdictional Options
5.3		Achieving Balance

6.0

Policies on Secondary Uses of Data

7.0

Summary

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