Re: [Health] Where might patients post some additional health data of theirs they would intend to share with their doctor?

[Luis Falcon]

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Don Saklad <address@hidden> wrote:
> How might it work with pdf ?... for instance
> http://bayerglucofacts.com
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PDFs would be stored as a binary attachment, and then automatically
associated to the health professional's pdf viewer.
Now, if you what you want to is mapping the results specific model /
fields, then you should work with csv or xml.
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>>> For example, how might the patients send to their medical centers or send 
>>> to their doctors the 6 or 12 month digital log from fingertip blood 
>>> diabetes meters' software.
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> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Luis Falcon <address@hidden> wrote:
>> It all depends on how the that specific software export the data. In GNU 
>> Health is easy to import information coming from csv or xml file, thanks to 
>> the Tryton framework, so you can upload it to the specific patient test
>> When you send images, scanned data, or other binary data, you can attach 
>> them that patient model, or to other model related to the patient (such as 
>> labs ). There are different communication methods that could be arranged, 
>> from simple email, to the internal messaging enginge.
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>>> Where might patients post some additional health data of theirs they would 
>>> intend to share with their doctor?
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>> Are you talking about a telemedicine session, or a way to keep an ongoing 
>> communication channel with the health professional ?
>> The most common way is to inform the health doctor at the evaluation 
>> process, but, definitely there can be others.
>> Best,
>> Luis Falcon
>> GNU Health
> http://health.gnu.org
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