Robert Scoble had a post about AWS and GAE, into which he snuck in some pretty significant news. Google has launched a Health Data API.
What can you do with the API? Among other things you can upload patient medical records and get patient medical data to provide additional, personalized, functionality. This is clearly targeted at developing an ecosystem around the Google Health system. Google Health supports CCR (or at least a subset), and in theory, companies can set up services that allow hospitals/health systems to communicate with Google Health, and hopefully some day, enable health data portability between health systems.
Will be interesting to see how the API gets used? How will any privacy concerns be overcome? Who will the early adopters be? We will have to wait and see.
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There are a lot of great apps possible — not all of them doctor/patient related:
http://www.in3.org/articles/gh2018best.htm
(There are also some real worst cases to worry about.)
There are a lot of great apps possible — not all of them doctor/patient related:
http://www.in3.org/articles/gh2018best.htm
(There are also some real worst cases to worry about.)