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Great, now mandate that it is viewable via API Can even use the healthcare industry standard for EHR which is JSON and RESTful

sxg 5y ago
Have JSON and REST been meaningfully adopted in healthcare? I thought most things still used the god-awful HL7 with hopes of migrating away.
- topspin 5y ago
  HL7 FHIR is a counterpoint. A comprehensive, well specified REST API based on JSON.
- EamonnMR 5y ago
  As mentioned upthread, faxes are still in use.
aeyes 5y ago
Even better: Mandate them to upload the data to some government system and let them provide a central API, transparency reports, ... Germany did this for gas stations: > Since 31 August 2013 companies which operate public petrol stations or have the power to set their prices are obliged to report price changes for the most commonly used types of fuel, Super E5, Super E10 and Diesel "in real time" to the Market Transparency Unit for Fuels. https://www.bundeskartellamt.de/EN/Economicsectors/MineralOil/MTU-Fuels/mtufuels_node.html https://www.bundeskartellamt.de/EN/Economicsectors/MineralOi...
nebula8804 5y ago
In the meantime, since we have the data, this could be a good project for volunteers to glue together all the different documents from the different hospitals into a single system. These files are provided as excel documents in what I assume to be a (hopefully) mostly unchanging location on each site. A script could download all the files, match up the procedures and then push it to a pretty tool for everybody to use when comparing prices. Most enterprises have terrible dev/IT talent but when it is a cause as important as this, talented people tend to show up to provide a great solution.
- EamonnMR 5y ago
  I was thinking of doing this. I even started a bit, but I didn't end up getting very far. I'm torn between trying to run it as a service and running ads or whatever, or trying to run it as a wiki with contributors writing ETLs for individual hospitals and trying to tame the data set.
  - nebula8804 5y ago
    Seems like we need a public project to attract a groups of developers to help make this a reality.

sxg 5y ago

Have JSON and REST been meaningfully adopted in healthcare? I thought most things still used the god-awful HL7 with hopes of migrating away.

topspin 5y ago
HL7 FHIR is a counterpoint. A comprehensive, well specified REST API based on JSON.
EamonnMR 5y ago
As mentioned upthread, faxes are still in use.

aeyes 5y ago

Even better: Mandate them to upload the data to some government system and let them provide a central API, transparency reports, ... Germany did this for gas stations: > Since 31 August 2013 companies which operate public petrol stations or have the power to set their prices are obliged to report price changes for the most commonly used types of fuel, Super E5, Super E10 and Diesel "in real time" to the Market Transparency Unit for Fuels. https://www.bundeskartellamt.de/EN/Economicsectors/MineralOil/MTU-Fuels/mtufuels_node.html https://www.bundeskartellamt.de/EN/Economicsectors/MineralOi...

nebula8804 5y ago

In the meantime, since we have the data, this could be a good project for volunteers to glue together all the different documents from the different hospitals into a single system. These files are provided as excel documents in what I assume to be a (hopefully) mostly unchanging location on each site. A script could download all the files, match up the procedures and then push it to a pretty tool for everybody to use when comparing prices. Most enterprises have terrible dev/IT talent but when it is a cause as important as this, talented people tend to show up to provide a great solution.

EamonnMR 5y ago
I was thinking of doing this. I even started a bit, but I didn't end up getting very far. I'm torn between trying to run it as a service and running ads or whatever, or trying to run it as a wiki with contributors writing ETLs for individual hospitals and trying to tame the data set.
- nebula8804 5y ago
  Seems like we need a public project to attract a groups of developers to help make this a reality.