Microsoft and Kaiser Permanente are partnering to improve the exchange of patient information online, the WSJ reports.

In a pilot program, the giants of software and health care will tackle the transfer of Kaiser employees’ data between Kaiser’s personal health record — an online repository containing test results, prescriptions and immunizations — and Microsoft’s HealthVault, a Web-based service that allows patients to store, manage and share medical on the Web.

If all goes well during the test, expected to run through the fall, the service would be expanded to interested Kaiser patients.

Similar efforts to put personal medical records online are underway at companies such as Revolution Health Group and Google, which launched its online health-care service, Google Health earlier this year. But people have been slow to embrace the approach, the WSJ writes, in part because of privacy and security concerns.

Another big problem is the that only 14% of medical practices keep records electronically, the WSJ noted earlier this year.