[gkaemmer]

Thanks for the comment, leovander—very good points! Right now we give hospitals a number of ways to respond to PatientBank requests. Currently, the most common one is fax and we don't (yet) perform much processing of that data. In addition to fax, we allow hospitals to send CCD/CCDAs to us via DIRECT, and we allow them to upload arbitrary files directly to PatientBank as well.

In the future, we'll use whatever APIs we can to get records from hospitals. There's a lot of promising work going on in this space, and we're excited to see where the industry leads!