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, there’ve been hints here and there that Microsoft was readying some kind of “Windows Live Healthcare” offering. And it’s not a huge surprise that Microsoft would be considering some kind of consumer-facing offering, given that Microsoft rival Google and AOL Founder Steve Case’s Revolution Health are rushing headlong into the patient-information world.
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