BY BOB BREWIN BBREWIN @GOVEXEC.COM
The Military Health System plans to deploy patient-controlled personal health records by the end of the year, and could become one of the first large groups to adopt the technology.
In a blog post on the MHS Web site last week, S. Ward Casscells, assistant secretary of Defense for health affairs, said he believed the organization can offer "something like" personal health records developed by Google, Microsoft, WebMD or RevolutionHealth, a consumer-focused health care company headed by Steve Case, the founder of AOL.
"We are investigating ways to incorporate the services and features offered by these commercial vendors as a way to expedite the development of our PHR and expand its capabilities by November 2008," said Terry Jones, an MHS spokesman.
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