News story roundup: HHS Issues final ICD-10 code sets; Medicare launches PHR Choice pilot in Arizona and Utah; The Joint Commission puts HCAHPS results on qualitycheck.org;  Rand releases Rand COMPARE (Comprehensive Assessment of Reform Efforts) to help with the evaluation of health policies.

UnitedHealth Group launched a new website and services for consumers.  The new site allows consumers to create health records online.

The Markel Foundation released online personal health record privacy guidelines that Google and Microsoft have agreed to follow.

MedPAC released new recommendations for medicare payments, the safety and liability of mystery shoppers in healthcare is being debated, and online medical records-keeping systems are being discussed.

Twelve communities have been selected to take part in a new national Medicare demonstration project using EHR incentives.  The five-year project is the first of its kind. The community areas that were selected are Alabama, Delaware, Jacksonville, FL (multi-county), Georgia, Maine, Louisiana, Maryland/Washington, DC, Oklahoma, Pittsburgh, PA (multi-county), South Dakota (multi-state), Virginia, and Madison, WI (multi-county).

Kaiser Permanente announced that it is partnering with Microsoft's HealthVault personal health records platform to offer its members a way to manage their own health data.  A Kaiser employee pilot is planned before a full rollout of the service at a later date.