Great point! A lot of people in the clinical world and health IT world completely agree with you. The real difficulty is opening the channel for secure communic

Great point! A lot of people in the clinical world and health IT world completely agree with you. The real difficulty is opening the channel for secure communication between practices and hospitals, electronic health record vendors, and health information exchanges. Have you heard of RHEx (http://wiki.siframework.org/RHEx http://wiki.siframework.org/RHEx, https://github.com/project-rhex/simple_rhex https://github.com/project-rhex/simple_rhex)? It's an open source implementation of hData (http://www.projecthdata.org http://www.projecthdata.org) and provides a RESTful, secure way to transmit patient data.