Microsoft offers personal health records website

It seems that the next frontier for many technology and web companies is to launch a service that lets individuals track their health stats and associated information on the web. We all have our lives on the web anyway these days, right?

Microsoft has joined Google as a company that wants to help you manage your own medical and health information with the launch of a service last week to do just that. The problem is that the confidentiality of that kind of sensitive information becomes suspect when a technology provider starts handling it instead of a medical practitioner. Well, maybe.

Do you need your own medical information stored on a website (albeit, a secure one), or would you prefer that information stay as is in the venue of your doctor's office? How could an offering like this help you as a patient?