WHCB: “Health Vault: Software Freedom Folks Want Dialogue with Medical Community”

“Fred Trotter wants to talk to you about Microsoft’s new Health Vault (MHV).

He hopes that by publishing his concerns that he might be able to draw some attention from the medical community to what the free software community is saying about MHV. “Its something of a blind date,” he says “but I strongly believe the two of them should definitely meet!” Specifically, Trotter wants to examine the implications of a proprietary software personal health record (PHR) on software freedom and his concerns about the ownership, privacy and security of the medical information put in it.”

See my complete post over at the World Health Care Blog.

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