“Microsoft Corp. launched a Web site Thursday for managing personal health and medical information, but privacy advocates worry that neither the technology nor U.S. law will protect patients’ most confidential details,” The Associated Press reports.

“From the consumer’s point of view, Microsoft’s HealthVault site is part filing cabinet, part library and part fax machine for an individual’s or a family’s medical records and notes,” AP reports.

“The free site can store medical histories, immunization and other records from doctors’ offices and hospital visits, including data from devices like heart monitors. It is also tied to a health information search engine the software maker launched last month,” AP reports.

“While consumers have been willing to send financial details over the Web in spite of identity-theft horror stories, many still consider private medical information too sensitive to put online,” AP reports.

Full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Jim - TIV" for the heads up.]

Just the idea of Microsoft controlling medical information makes us sick.