OptumHealth today announced it is providing a free personal health record (PHR) that is portable and can be shared with physicians, family member or others. The PHR is available through the Web site www.myOptumHealth.com and provides the same portability and sharing capability that is also now available to individuals with PHRs set up through more than 1,000 employer private health portals managed by OptumHealth, as well as the myUHC.com portal used by 25 million UnitedHealthcare members.

These attractive expanded features are made possible through collaboration between OptumHealth and Microsoft Corporation. Individuals can now transfer their PHR information from an OptumHealth-managed health portal directly into a Microsoft® HealthVault™ account, which is a security-enhanced, Web-based consumer health platform. Information stored in HealthVault will be “portable” in that it will be available to members even if they change jobs or health plans, providing a truly portable record of their health.

The OptumHealth PHR is free and available from www.myOptumHealth.com or accessible from the private health portals OptumHealth manages for employers and health plans, including UnitedHealthcare’s myUHC.com. It enables individuals to store, maintain and retrieve their comprehensive health history in a secure and central location. With the ability to now transfer such information to Microsoft HealthVault, a broad range of health and wellness information such as physician visits, diagnostics and treatments will be pre-populated and combined with the member-generated information into one online location. Individuals transferring information into a HealthVault account can then share it, as desired.