Wow Ok, sorry Fred, I was a bit flippant in my earlier response

As a more considered response I feel that Patient Held Records could
make a useful method of constructing a Hospital Information System,
compared to some of the systems I have worked on (i.e. Clinicom)
It is just an idea for me and I have not invested time and effort

I just cant help thinking that the onerous regulations in storing
patient clinical data could be circumvented by PHR which might hold a
future that might interest Google

However, my idea is probably a bit naive and would require a complete
rethink in hospital record keeping ;)

Fred, keep up the good work, I am impressed
http://www.fredtrotter.com/biography/

Peter


On 5 July 2011 06:05, Fred Trotter <[email protected]> wrote:
> There is no way to be compliant with HIPAA using appengine at this
> time.
> So your statement is not true:
> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/aef13f580f46bd13
>
> moreover, it has nothing to do with Google Health, which is a consumer
> focused PHR.
>
> Given that, I am not sure how your comment here is relevant to the
> topic.
>
> -FT
>
> On Jun 28, 1:30 am, Peter Retief <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Google does offer a variety of API's and its distributed database via
>> appengine, nothing is stopping a developer from creating a Hospital
>> Information System
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> On 27 June 2011 20:54, Harsh Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > Hi,
>> > I would second Fred here. I seriously feel that Google Health has 
>> > potential.
>> > Though i would as well agree that it may not be viable for Google from a
>> > business point of view. Hence i would request you guys at Google to open
>> > source it. Let the community take the work which you people have done.
>> > Googlers who have worked on Google Health can help the community to ramp up
>> > and take the project forward.
>> > I agree that without the Google infrastructure to be able to continue would
>> > be difficult, but its not impossible provided the community comes forward 
>> > to
>> > support it financially as well.
>> > I am not a big fan of Google Health and i seriously think that the design
>> > needs to be tweaked a bit to make it better. But again having said that it
>> > is best of lot that we have today.
>> > Thanks,
>> > Harsh Kumar
>>
>> > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 00:07, Fred Trotter <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>     First, let me say that I am sorry to see Google Health go. I
>> >> think it was a worthy project, and despite my criticism over the years
>> >> I have always admired your smooth delivery and classic design.
>>
>> >> I would ask that you consider Open Sourcing portions of Google Health.
>> >> For me, the order of priority is the following:
>>
>> >> 1. please Open Source your API. This way, the Open Source community
>> >> can work on cloning your offerings using existing PHR projects like
>> >> Indivo X.
>> >> 2. If you can release reference implementations of you API related
>> >> code (i.e. your feed/CCR mix) that would be especially helpful.
>> >> 3. Please consider Open Sourcing other important components, I know
>> >> you have a blue button parser, for instance, that could exist as a
>> >> separate Open Source project.
>> >> 4. Please consider Open Sourcing your whole codebase.
>>
>> >> I know #4 is a long shot. Unlike Google Wave, Google Health was never
>> >> intended (as far as I know) to exist outside the confines of Googles
>> >> considerable hosting infrastructure. Even if you released the code, it
>> >> might not be possible for any of us to make it work. If that is the
>> >> case than a full Open Source release would be still-born and mostly
>> >> useless to the community.
>>
>> >> Still I want to point out that Open Sourcing Google Health is not an
>> >> all-or-nothing issue and that many of use have invested deeply in your
>> >> technology. Open Sourcing what you can is a good way for us to recover
>> >> some of our investment.
>>
>> >> Thank You,
>> >> Fred Trotter
>> >>http://www.fredtrotter.com
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