Aetna to Offer Records in Microsoft ...

AP - INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Health insurer Aetna Inc. is becoming the first health insurer to team with Microsoft Corp. to give its customers an Internet-based vault for storing medical records they can access even if they change jobs or leave their health plan.

Starting next month, Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna will allow some customers to transfer electronic personal health records to Microsoft's HealthVault, a platform that lets care providers look at the information, if they have patient permission.

The vault will give the insurer's customers "continuous access" to their claims information and anything the patient wants to add, like clinical data or past medical records, Aetna President Mark Bertolini said.

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