Not all of us let them
JJ
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Sent: Sun 17-Jun-07 11:28 PM
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Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Google Health Record?
could someone please explain to me why HCN do not allow you to get at
YOUR data. They don't own it, you do, so why the f... do they stop you
getting at it???? and why do you let them???
N
Tony Eviston wrote:
> David Guest wrote:
>
>
>> One restriction at the moment with the HCN database is that progress
>> notes and letters are encrypted. This will be a problem for Jon since
>> his interest is in NLP (nosological linguistic programming :-D.
Again I
>> understand the decrypter is available from HCN but for obvious
reasons
>> they are a bit particular about who gets access.
>>
>
> David,
>
> The decryption utility is handicapped in that it won't do decryption
> incrementally - that is it does a full pass through the database every
> run and takes at least a few hours to do so, making it pretty useless
> for getting out the most recently entered data.
>
> The other handicap in bypassing the MD GUI to directly access the data
> is that one of the drug database fields is encrypted which means that
> you can return the list of drugs being taken by a patient but not the
> form/strength, so a typical returned dataset might look like this
>
> ALLOPURINOL half mane
> ASTRIX 100 1 mane
> ELOCON m.d.u.
> LIPITOR 1 nocte
> METOPROLOL TARTRATE 1 b.d.
> NORVASC 1 mane
> PANAMAX 2 q.i.d. p.r.n.
>
> which of course is of limited use in referrals, health summaries
etc...
>
> It's a shame that HCN can't see any benefit in allowing their
customers
> access the full data, thus unleashing the creativity of people like
> yourself to further advance general practice.
>
> Tony
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