on 10-9-2008 23:30 Ian McNicoll wrote: > Hi Roger, > > >> I don't understand the latter. A patient can access Health Vault with >> his/her browser from anywhere? So it doesn't matter where 'in the cloud' >> the system is deployed? >> > > Whilst web-based Health Vault style patient records will bring many > advantages, in terms of human accessibility, unless this is > underpinned by strong semantic precision we will gain none of the > advantages of computerisation around decision support and particularly > workflow support. I agree. This clarifies Thomas' former remark. > Additionally, whilst I strongly support the concept > of a patient authored/controlled record, IMO there must also be a > place for a clinical record, not necessarily being in a Health Vault style system, right? I imagine that's what Thomas intended with his latter "distributed deployment capability" remark. Looking at Google's Health Data API page http://code.google.com/apis/health/ though, it seems that Google made some start already with this capability by inviting Third-party Services providers and Data Providers to implement their API.
Speaking of Google, a thought that struck me: maybe one day we'll let their search engine do the querying of archetyped objects. Then AQL will not be necessary anymore? Roger
