Microsoft to Make Big Health Announcement Tomorrow

Rumors are flying around the Internet about Microsoft's health related announcement tomorrow, and whether or not they have plans to compete with Google's own health plans (does anyone know what those are? Does Google?).

It's exciting to see all of the momentum heating up in the consumer health sector these days.  In the past few weeks we've seen announcements from several online providers like Choice Health Network, Revolution Health, Google to name a few.  Our hope is that collectively, as an industry we can find solutions to the health care challenges that continue to impact so many millions of Americans.  So far, other than the growing momentum and discussion, we haven't seen any groundbreaking progress from the big companies in terms of solving consumers real problems so let's hope tomorrow's announcement makes some real advances to help consumers better manage their health, reduce costs, and make better decisions.

We have our fingers crossed, but something tells us much of the true innovation is still to come as a result of a new crop of entrepreneurs and small businesses who are going to make radical innovations and disruptive changes to what types of information, services, and solutions consumers have access to. 

We look forward to being one of those providers finding new solutions working to better unite consumers, medical professionals and health care providers like never before.