Microsoft Announces Simple Transfer of Health Data From Google Health Service to Microsoft HealthVault [Microsoft News Center]

On a related note, see Google Health: Dead of Neglect (Boston Globe)

Microsoft Corp. today announced that people using the Google Health service, scheduled to be discontinued Jan. 1, 2012, can easily transfer their personal health information stored in a Google Health profile to a Microsoft HealthVault account using the Direct Project messaging protocols established by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. The Direct Project specifies a simple, scalable, standards-based way for participants to send authenticated, encrypted health information to known, trusted recipients over the Internet.

Google announced on June 24 that Google Health will be discontinued, effective Jan. 1, 2012, with records remaining available to account holders until Jan. 1, 2013.

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Third-party organizations that have developed Google Health applications also are invited to migrate their solutions to the HealthVault platform. Documentation, reference materials and a Software Development Kit are available at the HealthVault Developer Center on the Microsoft Developer Network, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/healthvault, and the business development team at hvbd@microsoft.com is available to answer developers’ questions.

Microsoft Announces Simple Transfer of Health Data From Google Health Service to Microsoft HealthVault: Google Health users can send their Google Health profile directly to a HealthVault account using Direct Project messaging protocols.