Andrew Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Pretty soon, each time your GP checks your BP of measures your lipids, > > the results start to appear in Google health via the Google health API > > interface from Medical Director etc. > > I imagine this is where the battleground would be in Australia. In the > US, > the consumer is king but I'm not sure my GP in Australia would > upload my data into an external record even if I asked him. And in a > classic > chicken and egg problem, what would motivate HCN to implement this? > They could say that there is no demand (obviously because the > functionality doesn't exist in MD so noone asks) and therefore they > won't implement it (no demand!).
Is HCN co-operation required to implement this? Obviously it is desirable, but is it strictly necessary? Remember that under Australian copyright law, it is not an offense to reverse engineer a copyrighted product for the purposes of interoperability - see http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/s47d.html In any case, I thought that Argus Connect was alreday enabled to send HL7 messages to CARDIAB databases? > Would Australian consumers be focused enough to change GP because the > GP refuses to participate in the patients PHR? I don't think the > percentage would be very high. The benefits of participation would need a social marketing campaign. But GPs agree to participate in the CARDIAB programme, don't they? I think what I had in mind was a next generation platform for CARDIAB or something very like it. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
