Although the relation to HealthKit was somewhat tangential, this post did an excellent job of relaying the status of and problems with digitized healthcare. HL7 is absolutely horrendous, and Meaningful Use has no interoperability requirements and weak prospects for getting good ones.
I think the Continuity of Care Document (CCD), though, is a bigger deal than he realizes. The View Download Transmit (VDT) requirement that requires the CCD is, in practice, making a HL7 3.x XML document available electronically. This opens a great opportunity to build real interoperability between EHRs.
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I think the Continuity of Care Document (CCD), though, is a bigger deal than he realizes. The View Download Transmit (VDT) requirement that requires the CCD is, in practice, making a HL7 3.x XML document available electronically. This opens a great opportunity to build real interoperability between EHRs.
Shameless plug: PicnicHealth (picnichealth.com) is working on taking advantage of precisely this opportunity. We're rolling out our alpha product. If you're interesting in what we're doing please reach out.