Cleveland Clinic Collaborates with Google®, Microsoft®

In 2008, Cleveland Clinic collaborated with Google®, the world’s leading Internet search company, to pilot features and services of a new online health offering called Google® Health. The pilot, an invitation-only opportunity offered to a group of Cleveland Clinic patients who use eCleveland Clinic MyChart®, Cleveland Clinic’s personal health record service, enrolled over 1,500 patients. It tested the secure exchange of patient medical record data such as prescriptions, conditions and allergies between their MyChart accounts to a secure Google® Health profile in a live clinical delivery setting. The ultimate goal of this patient-centered and controlled model was to give patients the ability to interact with multiple physicians, healthcare service providers and pharmacies. The successfully completed pilot extended Cleveland Clinic’s online patient services to a broader audience while enabling the portability of patient data so patients can take their data with them wherever they go – even outside the Cleveland Clinic Health System.

Cleveland Clinic and Microsoft® Corp., have formed a partnership to pilot the patient-controlled data exchange between Microsoft® HealthVault™, a Web-based personal health platform, a suite of widely-used digital medical devices, and MyChart®. The short-term pilot, begun on Monday, Nov. 3, is the first pilot in the country to follow multiple diseases in the clinical delivery setting using multiple at-home devices such as glucometers, heart rate monitors, weight scales and blood pressure monitors. The pilot is a physician-driven, invitation-only opportunity offered to a group of Cleveland Clinic MyChart® users in the areas of diabetes, hypertension and heart failure. Cleveland Clinic plans to enroll approximately 400 patients and aims to demonstrate the advantages of using secure technology-based connectivity services to enable patients and physicians to better manage and track chronic diseases from home, using the patient’s own computer.