[News] [Rival] Microsoft (and Google) for Life or Death Lock-in
Roy Schestowitz
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| Microsoft and Google both assert that their service will give people greater
| control over their own healthcare. It's already happening at pace at some big
| hospitals, Mandl and Kohane note. At New York Presbyterian, authorities are
| committed to allowing patients to transfer information to the Microsoft
| HealthVault.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/google_microsoft_health_record/
Putting your health data in a company on the verge of debt? It's a no-no.
Recent:
Microsoft says to borrow money for Yahoo deal
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| Microsoft Corp said on Monday it may borrow money for the first time in its
| history to fund a portion of its $44.6 billion unsolicited offer for Yahoo
| Inc.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNews/idUSN0455692920080205
Microsoft's DreamSpark – What a Giveaway
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| The rest of the $44.6bn (£22.3bn) deal would be financed with an undisclosed
| amount of credit.
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| What that means is that it must squeeze as much money as it can from its
| operations to fund that debt and still pay dividends to shareholders, who
| will be looking for some payback from the Yahoo takeover.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/microsofts-dreamspark-%E2%80%93-what-giveaway
Related:
Use Health Vault, Lose Your Rights
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| Microsoft has announced (NY Times Article) Health Vault. What should have
| followed here is a review of the service by my actually trying it.
|
| [...]
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| Heard enough? So had I. I'm absolutely going to pass on Health Vault. In
| addition to looking like the Microsoft Passport debacle redux, this is a very
| one-sided contract. They can harm you but you cannot harm them. There is no
| way for any 3rd party to verify that their privacy and security software
| works.
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http://www.linuxmednews.com/1191521272
Your data or your life
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| As unlikely and alarmist as this sounds, it could really happen. Intracare
| is the publisher of a popular practice management system called Dr. Notes.
| When some doctors balked at a drastic increase in their annual software
| lease, they were cut off from accessing their own patients? information.
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| This situation is completely unconscionable. There can be no truly
| open doctor-patient relationship when an unrelated third party is the
| de facto owner of and gatekeeper to all related data.
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