CCD and HealthVault

A new paper written by on the topic of integrating legacy health care systems to CCD compliant me has been published on Netsoft’s web site.. Here’s an excerpt from the paper

In recent years, health care providers, insurance companies
and health applications have all been collecting mountains
of health-related data in various electronic formats. The
ability to search and analyze this data in context is required in
order to prove it worthy of the effort of collecting it in the first
place. One big challenge that stands in the way of ubiquitous
health information is the data format disparity between different
systems. It is not uncommon today to see legacy applications that
are using older standards such as flat text files, HL7, CCR …

You can read the white paper on Netsoft USA’s web site by clicking here.