Comments on: Does CVS provide a CSV? http://benlog.com/articles/2009/04/07/does-cvs-provide-a-csv/ security, privacy, transparency. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:03:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ben http://benlog.com/articles/2009/04/07/does-cvs-provide-a-csv/comment-page-1/#comment-526660 ben Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:34:51 +0000 http://benlog.com/?p=490#comment-526660 Hi Adam, Yes, you're absolutely right, Google has a public API, and I only used the term "CSV" to play on the name "CVS", XML would be better :) But what I find surprising is that CVS built an interface to Google Health before they built an interface to... me. Why is their interface exclusive to Google Health? There are privacy policies at Google that I may not like, I might prefer to go to MS HealthVault or something else. So, data liquidity has to mean *open* APIs where any PCHR can access the data via the API, not these bilateral one-offs where one PHR is favored over another. Hi Adam,

Yes, you’re absolutely right, Google has a public API, and I only used the term “CSV” to play on the name “CVS”, XML would be better :)

But what I find surprising is that CVS built an interface to Google Health before they built an interface to… me. Why is their interface exclusive to Google Health? There are privacy policies at Google that I may not like, I might prefer to go to MS HealthVault or something else.

So, data liquidity has to mean *open* APIs where any PCHR can access the data via the API, not these bilateral one-offs where one PHR is favored over another.

]]> By: Adam Bosworth http://benlog.com/articles/2009/04/07/does-cvs-provide-a-csv/comment-page-1/#comment-525572 Adam Bosworth Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:01:54 +0000 http://benlog.com/?p=490#comment-525572 Thanks for the kind words. To be fair, Google has a public API and anyone could (and maybe should) write a Google Health App to help a user get their data out of Google in XML or CSV. I personally prefer XML because the CCR is sort of close to a standard, but I'm easy. So they don't really lock in your data. And you, the patient, get to control who sees it. Thanks for the kind words.

To be fair, Google has a public API and anyone could (and maybe should) write a Google Health App to help a user get their data out of Google in XML or CSV. I personally prefer XML because the CCR is sort of close to a standard, but I’m easy. So they don’t really lock in your data. And you, the patient, get to control who sees it.

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