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LEARN MORE Injuryboard on celebrity medical records Injuryboard on Google Health Kaiser Permanente HealthVault Injuryboard on selling medical records Injuryboard on HIPAA Injuryboard on Cleveland Clinic trial World Privacy Forum Report on medical identity theft World Privacy Reform Report for consumers of electronic medical records IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Microsoft German campus/ author: Johannes Hemmerlein If your medical records are stored online, will they be readily available for the World Wide Web to see? Many are asking that very question as the health industry shifts from paper medical files to digitized records. This week, Microsoft Corporation and Kaiser Permanente , the largest health maintenance organization in the United States, announced a partnership they believe will help press forward efforts to safely transfer sensitive health data to digitized medical records . Thousands of Kaiser's employees will initially be eligible for the pilot program, connecting the health maintenance organization's health records with Microsoft's HealthVault , a free, internet-based health technology platform that launched in October. The transition from paper medical files to digitized records has been a slow one. Many medical groups, hospitals and insurance companies typically have closed computer systems that do not allow information to be exchanged. HealthVault claims it will allow users to control their own health records a ...