When you make your application, website, or device HealthVault-enabled, you can deliver richer experiences to your users while lowering your costs by leveraging our investments in storage and authentication, and reducing the need for multiple program interfaces. HealthVault enables solution providers to:
HealthVault provides a set of services that solution providers can use to more rapidly build and scale their applications. By building applications natively on the HealthVault platform, solution providers can use the storage services of Microsoft. Our storage services provide access-controlled, high-availability storage managed under Microsoft security policies, which we scale as needed.
Never before have providers been able to build applications that, with the user's permission, can bring together lab values, device data, medication information, and more to provide patients and caregivers with the ability to better manage their health conditions. When you create a HealthVault-compatible application, it makes it easy for your users to use health information that they've already stored and recorded. This ease of use can motivate more users to sign up for, and use, your services.
By becoming a part of the HealthVault ecosystem you become part of a valuable network of organizations that are uniquely able to partner and share patient data using a common platform. As solution provider you will have access to valuable marketing resources, such as customizable collateral and discounts on marketing services offered exclusively to HealthVault Solution Providers. These resources will help you promote consumer functionality enabled by a HealthVault connection.
This guide is intended for industry organizations interested in connecting to Microsoft HealthVault. It includes the steps required to become a HealthVault solution provider, so that you can decide whether that is something you want to pursue.
There are four phases to becoming a HealthVault solution provider and you can navigate through phases using the guided sections above. They are: