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This is what we're doing at Patients Know Best (https://www.patientsknowbest.com https://www.patientsknowbest.com) -- we are giving patients an aggregated view
by sz4kerto 8y ago
This is what we're doing at Patients Know Best (https://www.patientsknowbest.com https://www.patientsknowbest.com) -- we are giving patients an aggregated view of their medical data and we're interfacing with many providers. As many of you mentioned, the major issue is to solve is the subtle, but important differences in vocabulary. Even if providers can export data in "standard formats", those standards are often not specific enough so you need to build something that can translate between them.
This is a though and fiddly problem, there's a reason why Google/MS/etc. have all bailed out. You can't just build something once and let it scale for the whole healthcare system.
- lostlogin 8y agoHL7 is considered a standard format. If you spend a few minutes in that land you can end up very troubled, very fast, and it sounds like you know this. There people making big money off the format, just by converting flavour A to flavour B for big organisations. It’s grim.
- organsnyder 8y agoI work for a software company in the HIE space. We like to say, "When you've seen one HL7 message, you've seen one HL7 message."