by Tony Chen

Remember's Google's big announcement when they launched Google Health? Their partners included the likes of Cleveland Clinic, Quest, CVS, among others? These were the partners that had built interfaces to the Google Health platform, and patients could choose to import data from those sources into (and out of) their Google Health record.

Got this in my email today:

Today Microsoft and Kaiser Permanente announced a pilot program between Kaiser Permanente’s My Health Manager personal health record and the HealthVault consumer health platform at the Microsoft HealthVault Solutions Conference. Connecting My Health Manager to the HealthVault platform will allow users to combine personal health information from Kaiser Permanente and a wide range of health and wellness management applications and devices, such as blood pressure monitors. Also at the conference, a wide range of health technology companies introduced more than 40 new online health applications and devices.

While Microsoft is probably nobody's favorite company, you have to commend them for landing such a strategic partnership covering xx millions of lives right off the bat?