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Re:The Drums of Cyberwar by tapland on Friday December 13, 2019 @03:01PM (#21784848)
I'm very happy that medical data can be transferred digitally some places though. It's taken 6+ months to transfer records when moving.
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Re:The Drums of Cyberwar by toomuchtodo on Friday December 13, 2019 @03:37PM (#21785193)
That can be done between federated EPIC EHR systems using their API endpoints without exposing those endpoints to the public internet (either over VPN or dedicated lines). With that said, the API endpoints are exposed for rebranded EPIC mobile apps to interface with the EHR systems operated by health systems (for consumer access), as well as Apple Health (which can OAuth to EPIC).

I don't know how Apple Health is pulling data in from the VA health system [1] (one would assume an API of some sort), but I plan on exploring it soon.

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/11/health-records-on-iph...

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Re:The Drums of Cyberwar by jay_kyburz on Friday December 13, 2019 @03:43PM (#21785262)
That's a people problem, not a physical records problems. If they wanted to, they could put your records in an envelope and send it anywhere in a day.
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