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Hi, one of the PicnicHealth founders here. It's great that you were motivated enough to upload your data to Google Health! Unfortunately for Google Health, most

Hi, one of the PicnicHealth founders here. It's great that you were motivated enough to upload your data to Google Health! Unfortunately for Google Health, most people weren't as motivated as you. We believe that Personal Health Records haven't yet been successful because they require users to manually upload their data, and most people just aren't willing to do this. That's one of the reasons why we take care of collecting and organizing records for our users. About fees, you're right: one of our users would have had to pay over $700 in fees if he had tried to get the records from just one of his hospitalizations on his own! We have relationships set up so that we avoid fees almost 100% of the time, and when we can't avoid a fee we cover that ourselves. Our job is also to sort through the mess and pull out the salient information so that you don't have to.

rcarrigan87 12y ago
Very true, people generally take their health for granted until they experience an adverse event. Expecting people to take it upon themselves to handle their own medical records is wishful. Large doctor practices sometimes have 2 or even 3 people just dedicated to fulfilling medical record requests. That's a huge expense. I help run a home health company that is constantly requesting medical records. We still receive most records by fax! Our receptionist spends a good bit of her day handling this process. It's a huge waste on both ends. If you could make that process easier I think a lot of providers would be willing to pay... Regardless, best of luck! So much opportunity in this space, keep pushing.
- nogaleviner 12y ago
  Would love to talk offline and hear more about how you're handling this. I'm only just learning about home healthcare deals with this stuff. I'm noga at picnichealth if you have a minute to chat at some point.
  - rcarrigan87 12y ago
    sure rcarrigan87 at gmail. Drop me a line and we can chat.

rcarrigan87 12y ago

Very true, people generally take their health for granted until they experience an adverse event. Expecting people to take it upon themselves to handle their own medical records is wishful. Large doctor practices sometimes have 2 or even 3 people just dedicated to fulfilling medical record requests. That's a huge expense. I help run a home health company that is constantly requesting medical records. We still receive most records by fax! Our receptionist spends a good bit of her day handling this process. It's a huge waste on both ends. If you could make that process easier I think a lot of providers would be willing to pay... Regardless, best of luck! So much opportunity in this space, keep pushing.

nogaleviner 12y ago
Would love to talk offline and hear more about how you're handling this. I'm only just learning about home healthcare deals with this stuff. I'm noga at picnichealth if you have a minute to chat at some point.
- rcarrigan87 12y ago
  sure rcarrigan87 at gmail. Drop me a line and we can chat.