Online Health Sites

Google Health
Microsoft Health Vault

The big competition here is between Google Health and Microsoft’s HealthVault. (Revolution Health is more of an information portal at this point, and who is going to trust their health insurance company?). Whereas HealthVault’s strengths seem to lie in tying together different health information silos on the back end, Google Health is focusing more initially on the consumer side. It is trying to do an end-run around the health establishment by trying to get consumers to manually load their own medical information into their profiles. HealthVault allows this as well, but seems to have stronger partnerships with back-end health data providers. Google will no doubt tackle the existing health data silos as it proceeds. It really has no choice if it wants to organize the world’s health information.

from: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/19/google-health-a-quick-peek/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/04/microsoft-beats-google-to-online-health-records-with-healthvault/