By Elizabeth Montalbano , IDG News Service

June 23, 2008

Microsoft continues to sign up partners to support its mission to create an online repository for patient information. On Monday the company announced a partnership with AT&T and Compuware subsidiary Covisint to set up an Internet-based information exchange between the companies’ e-health systems.

The deal is similar to a pilot set up between Microsoft and Kaiser Permanente earlier this month to share data between HealthVault, Microsoft’s central repository for patient health records, and Kaiser’s My HealthManager e-records systems.

Through Microsoft’s deal with AT&T and Covisint, people using HealthVault can share information with physicians and health care providers that connect up using AT&T’s Healthcare Community Online VPN-based portal and Covisint’s On-Demand Healthcare Platform software.

While AT&T provides broadband access …

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