Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA) is the fisrt health insurance company to work with Google Health, and this cooperation will enable BCBSMA members to store and organize their personal health data in private online health database.

Blue Cross Blue Shield is the first health insurance provider to be "Early Mover" on Google Health platform. Blue Cross Blue Shield will provide claims data to members in safe and secure online environment.

Pilot program will allow voluntary data exchange from Kaiser Permanente’s market-leading personal health record to Microsoft HealthVault.

Electronic health records' pilot program will allow voluntary data exchange from Kaiser Permanente’s market-leading personal health record to Microsoft HealthVault.

Barack Obama's long-time physician released his medical records, and proclaimed the Illinois senator "in excellent health."

Google Health was launched yesterday, "your" database for all your health records in (what else) beta form. Personally, I have little interest in spreading more of my personal information around for people / companies to accidentally leak, but I took a look anyway.

Google Health finally has been launched and if you have to ask what Google Health is? it is an extension to your heath record information. You can store your health information with Google Health and manage it as you want. It's completely free. All you need to get started is a Google account ( Google username and password). If you have that you are set to go.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced a new project that expands its efforts to encourage beneficiaries covered by traditional Medicare to take advantage of Internet-based resources to track their health care services and better communicate with their providers.

Who owns your medical tests results and your personal health data? Such a vexing question cuts to the core of personal liberty and freedom of information.

Dossia, a non-profit consortium of large employers, announced today two new founding members and a healthcare advisor and technology collaborator, updating its progress toward the development of private, personal, portable and secure health records for its employees and their dependents, plus retirees.

Storing essential medical information under the skin could be possible as now a grain size device implanted with a needle could give emergency room doctors quick access to the records of chronically ill patients.

"ACP strongly believes in the goal of widespread adoption and use of health information technology to improve quality of care," Michael H. Zaroukian, MD, PhD, FACP, told the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics subcommittee on Privacy and Confidentiality today at their hearing on "Consumer Controls for Sensitive Health Records."