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ActiveHealth Management's Intelligent, Interactive Personal Health Record to Be Featured on Microsoft HealthVault.


ActivePHR to Help Users of the Consumer Health Platform Make the Most Informed Healthcare Decisions

NEW YORK New York, state, United States
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 & WASHINGTON -- ActiveHealth Management (ActiveHealth([R])), a clinically-based, technology-driven health management services company, today announced that the company's intelligent, interactive personal health record (PHR PHR Personal Health Record
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) will be featured on Microsoft HealthVault Microsoft HealthVault is an online service from Microsoft to store and maintain health-related information. The platform consists of three different services:
HealthVault Search: HealthVault Search is a topical search engine to search specifically for health-related
, Microsoft Corp.'s new consumer health platform. The ActivePHR(SM) program's patient-centered, patient-controlled design supports HealthVault's goal of delivering technology solutions that help people live better, longer lives by enabling them to make the best health and wellness decisions. ActiveHealth is an independent subsidiary of Aetna([R]) (NYSE NYSE

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).

"ActivePHR is one of those exciting applications in the HealthVault family that will provide real value for many people right away," said Peter Neupert, Corporate Vice President of the Health Solutions Group at Microsoft. "ActivePHR gives consumers the opportunity to collect, understand and share their health data in a private and secure manner."

Powered by CareEngine([R]) System, ActiveHealth's patented, evidence-based clinical decision support technology, ActivePHR goes beyond the standard functions of a PHR by identifying individualized in·di·vid·u·al·ize  
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1. To give individuality to.

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, actionable opportunities to enhance care and lower healthcare costs.

HealthVault users will be encouraged to add to their ActivePHR personal information like smoking status, allergies, family history, over-the-counter medications, and herbal herbal, early botanical book containing descriptions and illustrations of herbs and plants with their properties, chiefly those qualities that made them useful as medicines or condiments. Most of the herbals were written between c.1470 and c.  supplements. User-entered data will be compiled with other available sources of data. CareEngine System will then scan the information and compare it against the latest findings in evidence-based literature to identify individualized, actionable opportunities to improve care.

"Transforming healthcare requires the collaboration of leaders from across the healthcare industry," said Lonny Reisman, MD, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of ActiveHealth Management. "ActivePHR will be a key component of Microsoft's consumer-centric healthcare platform. Our clinical decision support technology and clinical expertise will empower HealthVault users by enabling them to make more informed health decisions for themselves and their families."

"Microsoft HealthVault provides ActiveHealth with a powerful platform to directly reach consumers with the CareEngine," said Ronald A. Williams, Chairman and CEO of Aetna, parent of ActiveHealth Management. "The CareEngine is unique in its ability to consolidate fragmented health data, compare it against the latest findings in evidence-based literature, and provide immediate, relevant feedback to each individual, giving them a greater opportunity to manage their own health and quality of life. That is a breakthrough in technology and capability and we are determined to make it widely available to consumers."

Microsoft's Health Solutions Group (HSG HSG High School Graduate
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) launched HealthVault today at a press event in Washington D.C. Dr. Reisman participated in the program.

For more information about ActivePHR, contact ActiveHealth at media@activehealth.net. A short video about the product is also available at www.activehealth.net/phr-video.php.

About ActiveHealth Management

ActiveHealth Management is a clinically-based, technology-driven health management services company. Health plans, employers and government payors rely on ActiveHealth's CareEngine[R] System Clinical Decision Support, Disease Management, Health Management and Data Analytics solutions to improve care for those most in need, prevent medical errors, reduce hospitalizations and lower medical costs. Over 15.4 million people nationwide benefit from programs powered by ActiveHealth's patented CareEngine[R] System. ActiveHealth is an independent subsidiary of Aetna (NYSE: AET). Founded in 1998, ActiveHealth is headquartered in New York City New York City: see New York, city.
New York City

City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S.
 with locations in Chantilly, VA, Chicago, IL, Rolling Meadows Rolling Meadows, city (1990 pop. 22,591), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago; inc. 1955. There is research and development and the manufacture of office supplies and electronic components. , IL, Greenwood Village, CO and Beachwood, OH. For more information, please visit http://www.activehealth.net.

ActiveHealth([R]) and CareEngine([R]) are registered marks of ActiveHealth Management, Inc. All other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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