(note: This is the first of my "week of HealthVault" articles.)

HealthVault, the new Personal Health Record (PHR) from Microsoft, along with Googles coming PHR offering, fail the seven generations test.

I did not come up with the idea of "seven generations", pay attention the next time you go to the grocery store and you might notice a brand of laundry detergent called seventh generation. The company behind the product got their name from a suggestion by a Native American employee that they follow the principles that lead the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy . The council of the Iroquois considered how any decision would impact the next seven generations. Lets see how the principles apply to health IT.

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