Microsoft has made no secret about the fact it has designs on being a healthcare-IT contender. But what the company has kept under wraps, at least until now, was what it planned to do on the consumer side of the healthcare space.
Sure, thereve been hints here and there that Microsoft was readying some kind of Windows Live Healthcare offering. And its not a huge surprise that Microsoft would be considering some kind of consumer-facing offering, given that Microsoft rival Google and AOL Founder Steve Cases Revolution Health are rushing headlong into the patient-information world.
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