By Sam Faus, Sujansky & Associates, LLC, Developers of the Project HealthDesign Common Platform.
The Project HealthDesign Common Platform was developed in order to support the requirements of the nine 2006-2008 grantees to facilitate the development of innovative Personal Health Applications (PHAs) and to promote the sharing of observations of daily living (ODLs) between these PHAs. Using a standard and open SOAP-based web service the personal health data repository allows for the cloud-based storage, access and management of personal health data elements, including ODLs and medication list data.
What the Common Platform has taught us so far:- The strength of the Common Platform lies in the partnerships that it allows between the sources of personal health data and applications that can then access that data. This enables patient data sharing and allows for meaningful visualizations and interpretations.
- The Common Platform allowed the 2006-2008 projects to validate that personal health data can be useful without being strictly clinical. Allowing for input of observations of daily living that aren’t traditionally part of classically defined health information makes the personal health record more meaningful to the person and can provide providers insights into their care.
- You can capture meaningful observations in daily living without an overly large set of common data types. The Common Platform allows for entry of defined observations of daily living, like food intake, but also has the flexibility to input undefined information, like blood glucose levels.
Sam Faus, is presenting The Project HealthDesign Common Platform: Enabling Innovative Uses of Health Data by Personal Health Applications at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention this week. We’ll post video of his talk when it’s available.
To learn more about the Common Platform visit the website.
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