Quoted: "Twelve months ago, the most important things on American voters' minds were the war and health care. Two days ago, the most important thing on American voters' minds is the economy. Health care and the war have taken a backseat."

With an aging population, behavior-related chronic conditions, and expensive innovations, companies must help people address their specific personal health concerns with thorough, transparent and specific information... Effective health engagement can build trust, and conversely, trust is the key to deeper engagement.

Quoted: Starting next month, many enrollees in the insurer's plans will be able to move information from their Aetna "personal health record" -- an online repository of data that includes claims, diagnoses, test results and prescriptions -- to HealthVault.

Quoted: “We’re excited to collaborate with Microsoft in utilizing Amalga, a new technology that opens up access to critical data currently stored in disparate systems, to help improve translational research,” said Dr. Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, division head, Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics at the University of Washington. “The Amalga tool will improve the ability of ITHS to provide our researchers with access to all of the data they need when they need it, allowing them to conduct their work faster and more effectively.”

Quoted: Among the first pediatric healthcare centers nationwide to adopt Amalga, Seattle Children’s will now be able to consolidate and view valuable patient data currently locked in core IT systems.

Quoted: The Professional Developers Conference is your opportunity to connect with top architects and developers in the community for four days of the deepest technical discussions about the future of the Microsoft platform.

Quoted: The District of Columbia Primary Care Association will use Microsoft Amalga to enable the sharing of data among local hospitals and six community-based health centers that are part of a newly formed District of Columbia Regional Health Information Organization.

Chilmark Research Inc., a consumer health care I.T. research firm, has released a report that analyzes how personal health records technology from Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. already have changed the market for this technology.

Quoted: "PHR vendors are now directly experiencing the impact of this visibility with a significant increase in the number of requests for proposals from employers, providers and health plans. But with this increase in demand, consumer expectations will also rise, putting significant pressure on smaller, less capable PHR vendors and thus putting them at risk."

Quoted: Dossia, Google, Intuit, Microsoft, WebMD, AARP, America's Health Insurance Plans, the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Family Physicians - among other healthcare stakeholders - are endorsing the Connecting for Health framework created by the Markle Foundation's public-private collaboration.