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NEWYORK-PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL

NewYork-Presbyterian is a 2,200-bed hospital with 1.6 million outpatient, 112,000 inpatient, and 187,000 ER encounters per year, and delivers one fifth of the healthcare services in New York State. NewYork- Presbyterian leaders are investing in technology to amalgamate the organization's clinical data from disparate sources within the hospital and make the data available to patients and their team of healthcare providers, including referring physicians, online.

Microsoft® Amalga™ was deployed to consolidate clinical data including laboratory reports, medications, surgical information, echocardiogram and electrocardiogram images, discharge summaries and instructions.

In order to provide patients and providers with access to complete medical records, a customized Webbased health record called myNYP.org was developed. myNYP.org uses Microsoft® HealthVault™, a privacyand security-enhanced platform, to store health information online.

With myNYP.org, patients can view a record of their clinical information from previous visits, and improve their health by learning more about specific conditions, diagnostic tests, and therapeutic procedures. Patients can share that information with trusted family members and healthcare providers and access this information whenever and wherever it is needed. By placing the patient in the center of managing health information, myNYP.org helps patients take charge of their health information and use that information to improve their own health outcomes.

INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE

We inherit much more than hair and eye color from our parents and grandparents. We can also inherit the risk of developing common health problems like coronary artery disease, hypertension, stroke, diabetes, and even cancer. A family health history can help physicians identify patients with an increased risk for these diseases.

Family health history is often gathered during medical visits. But the data collected — and the way it's used — varies from practice to practice. Clinical Genetics Institute at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City is collaborating with Microsoft to create an electronic tool that will allow patients to compile their own family health history and then share it with physicians and relatives. The tool could lead to more comprehensive health records and eliminate the need to fill out new forms each time a patient visits a doctor.

The effort will standardize what information is collected during medical visits and create a tool for compiling the information, which ultimately will lead to customized treatment plans. These new records will:

• Be stored and managed in an accessible, free, easy, and security-enhanced tool
• Help stratify riskl
• Improve prevention efforts
• Allow physicians to assess risk before ordering a genetic test

DEPT. OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

"My Family Health Portrait" is the Surgeon General's web tool designed to help consumers gather their family health histories. This free web tool was developed with the support of the National Human Genome Research Institute, and is hosted by the Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG®) at the National Cancer Institute. With "My Family Health Portrait", you can collect and prepare your family health history, automatically arrange it in a medically useful form, and help your providers easily obtain that information.

Family history can help identify whether you have risk for some diseases. It can help your practitioner recommend actions to reduce your personal risk. And it can help in spotting early warning signs of disease, when the most effective actions can be taken. This web tool makes it easy to record and update your family health history. It's strictly private — no personal information is retained by the website. The consumer chooses what information is to be saved.

Family history is most useful when it can be imbedded into a patient's electronic record and used to help make medical decisions. The Surgeon General welcomes partnerships that make this possible. Microsoft is an initial partner in making structured family health history available for electronic medical records, risk assessment tools, and other uses through HealthVault.

Visit "My Family Health Portrait" at familyhistory.hhs.gov. Benefit from your own structured family health history, and enhance the value further with HealthVault.

MAYO CLINIC HEALTH MANAGER

Mayo Clinic and Microsoft have a shared vision to help families take better care of their health. Both organizations recognized a need to develop a better way to help busy families protect and manage health, and decided to come together to develop a new solution.

Mayo Clinic Health Manager is a free, online tool that can help you manage your family's health. You can use it to organize health information for multiple family members in one place, and receive real-time, individualized information, reminders and health guidance developed by experts at Mayo Clinic, based on the data you enter. This interactive functionality extends the capabilities of traditional personal health records, using an individual's health information to generate customized recommendations on which they can act to better manage their health and the health of their families.

The information you put into your Mayo Clinic Health Manager profile is stored in Microsoft HealthVault. Built on a privacy- and security-enhanced foundation, HealthVault offers you a way to store health information from many sources in one location, so that it's always organized and available to you online. Mayo Clinic Health Manager puts you in complete control of your family's health information. You decide who can see, use and share your family's health information.