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They didn't give up. Microsoft is still trying with HealthVault. It's a Personal Health Record platform so they're hoping others build these types of solutions on top their offering. PHR usage has been growing, with some of the largest companies in the country ( Walmart, ATT, etc. ) using Dossia.

You don't have to "only use one pharmacy" ever. You'd have to use a PHR like Open Source IndivoHealth or HealthVault or Dossia.

Personally, I believe it's a great idea that hopefully will one day catch on.

Has someone been watching those iPad Healthcare case study videos?

Um, no. Someone has been producing actual healthcare products.

The PHR space is going to explode I believe as people start to shop around for affordable healthcare. This is one area I see where a small amount of technology can help the lives of millions of people. No more $100 xrays at every dentist you visit. Expensive diagnostics follow you around as long as they're valid. Less lost records and information 'silos' between doctors and labs.

This is one product I really hope Microsoft succeeds in.

http://www.healthvault.com/Personal/index.html

"Microsoft won't use your information in HealthVault to personalize ads or services without explicit permission."

Oh, thats comforting.

I'm just going to leave this here...

http://www.healthvault.com/

This is by Microsoft.

Microsoft Health Vault
http://www.healthvault.com/

Google Health
https://www.google.com/health

I am sure they are incompatible with all current systems as well as one another.

Everyone loves to shit on Google for things like censorship while forgetting Microsoft's cenorship in China and their usual abuses. Before we stick our dicks in Google's virtual poo hole too hard over this:

Microsoft Beats Google To Online Health Records With HealthVault October 4, 2007
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/04/microsoft-beats-google-to-online-health-records-with-healthvault/

"Its not often that Microsoft gets the drop on Google. But today it launched HealthVault in beta, a free online repository where anyone can keep their personal health records. Meanwhile, Google Health has yet to launch, having recently lost its leader Adam Bosworth.

With HealthVault, you can import your health records from your doctors, hospitals, labs, prescription drug plans, and other healthcare providers. You can also type them in yourself, or upload data from personal health monitoring devices such as glucose or blood-pressure monitors. The site also incorporates a health-specific search engine like Healthlines (here is the results page for glucose), and lets you save your searches. Microsoft plans to make money through health-related search ads, but says it wont target those ads to any personal data in someones stored medical record. Access to the site will require a Windows Live ID and a password that you can share with healthcare providers. Patient privacy will obviously be a major concern here, and fears of compromising it will likely be the biggest hurdle to adoption among both consumers and their doctors.

But it is worth trying to overcome that hurdle. Getting people to embrace digital personal health records is a Holy Grail for both the healthcare and technology industries. By making health records accessible on the Web to both patients and their doctors, better tracking of medical conditions and quicker responses to changes in those conditions could yield vast improvements in healthcare outcomes. Dangerous symptoms could be spotted earlier by doctors, while at the same time patients would have the information necessary to better take care of themselves. A shift to widespread use of online personal health records is the first step needed to change the focus of the healthcare system from one of constantly treating full-blown ailments to preventing them in the first place."

Where was the outcry over Microsoft's Health Vault?

Where was your outcry over Microsoft's censorship in China? Does it still continue?

Quit rubbing your penis over Google's issues when they give you so much compared to Microsoft, or are you just cozy and warm knowing Microsoft is evil and that's okay?

Not only has Microsoft attempted such a thing, but they've succeeded and already have a working version. Its Google that's playing catch-up here, not Microsoft.

To be fair, though, I wouldn't like either company to be snooping around in my health records.

Google is wayyyy behind Microsoft.

Microsoft's HealthVault came out several months ago, and has more partnerships than Google.

http://www.healthvault.com/

8. WE MAKE NO WARRANTY.

We provide the Service "as-is," "with all faults" and "as available." We do not guarantee the accuracy or timeliness of information available from the Service. Microsoft gives no express warranties, guarantees or conditions. You may have additional consumer rights under your local laws that this Service Agreement cannot change. We exclude any implied warranties including those of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, workmanlike effort and non-infringement.

That is from https://account.healthvault.com/help.aspx?topicid=ServiceAgreement now that is exactly how secure the database is. The non-infringement bit is interesting, is M$ admitting to stealing code and hiding in the closed source software.