Hi Stas,

Conditions in Health map to the CCR "Problems" section, which can
contain diseases and symptoms.  Health follows this convention, and
displays diseases and symptoms in the same area, conditions.  You can
differentiate symptoms from diseases using their ICD-9 codes,
however.  ICD-9 symptom codes begin with 780-789.

We presently don't have vocabulary services for listing the diseases
names or ICD-9 codes that Health supports; although, there are other
web sites/services where ICD-9 codes can be looked up.  If you'd like
to ensure that Health supports the codes for specific diseases, the
best way to get the codes is to add the diseases to your profile using
the UI, and then retrieve your record via the API.  The codes will be
in the returned CCR document.

If you send a problem to Health with a recognized code, you don't need
to send the disease's name; Health will use the name associated with
the code.  If you send both a name and a code, the name sent will
override the name the Health has.  You can also send a problem with a
name but without a code; however, this limits the usefulness of the
data and isn't preferred.  Finally, if you'd like to send a disease
with a code that Health either doesn't support or you're unsure if
Health supports, Health will retain the code for future use.  In this
case, you should send a name as well.

There's an example of a CCR document with a condition at the following
address:

http://code.google.com/p/googlehealthsamples/source/browse/trunk/CCR_samples/post_condition.xml

Lots of question; I hope I covered them all!  If not, let us know!

Cheers!

Paul (Google)


On May 26, 1:14 pm, Stas Lam <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello.
> 1.Can you answer what is the difference between conditions and
> symptoms? Does conditions mean disease ? or it means symptoms?
> 2.Where I should/can get ICD9 code of disease to use it in CCR
> document? Can you give me the link, where these codes are placing
> clearly...  Should I use always code ICD9 or I can just use name of
> disease in CCR.
> 3.Is there  API data which can give to me list of diseases/conditions/
> symptoms like that which we can see in  health.google.com site,when we
> going to add new conditions?
> 4.Where does contain diagnose of disease in health profile? Is this
> place conditions? And if it's true, why have you mixed symptoms and
> diagnose in conditions? How we should distinguish symptoms and
> disease?
>
> thanks...

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