> I've been working on an idea for something like Dropbox with a viewer to display the different formats, HL7&v2, FHIR etc with basic search as a step up from people having to print stuff out and fax it. Not really an EMR but a tool to view record which could maybe be extended. Dunno if that has legs or if anyone had done it already?
Not sure what your intended market is, assuming internal for a hospital, but that doesn't sound like a usable idea to me. How does a typical enduser get the HL7 out to put in your dropbox? Most health systems won't let you just export a HL7 without paying the vendor through the nose for an interface.
There are so many inefficiencies in the typical hospital that there has to be ideas there, unfortunately there's usually some silly political issue or crazy Catch-22 type situation that stops common sense stuff from being able to be implemented.
Yeah I'm not quite sure of those details. I think there is something in HIPAA along the lines "If your practice maintains EHR, you must provide a copy of the medical record in at least one readable electronic format." Also some may want to cooperate - dunno.
Not sure what your intended market is, assuming internal for a hospital, but that doesn't sound like a usable idea to me. How does a typical enduser get the HL7 out to put in your dropbox? Most health systems won't let you just export a HL7 without paying the vendor through the nose for an interface.
There are so many inefficiencies in the typical hospital that there has to be ideas there, unfortunately there's usually some silly political issue or crazy Catch-22 type situation that stops common sense stuff from being able to be implemented.