[specialist]

The thing I notice most about the DrChrono site is they still don't have an answer for getting competitors to share data.

No biggie, no one has answered that question yet. Well, actually, we do know the answer: universal healthcare (aka "single payer"), where the players aren't competitors.

I designed, implemented, and supported a handful of regional healthcare exchanges. Five exchanges, 80 hospitals, plus misc guarantors, scripts, ambulance services, lab orders & results, etc. So I have some experience.

What I learned is this:

Every single player thinks our medical records are THEIR records, to use, abuse, and monetize at will.

Last time I checked, DrChrono has expanded their product offering (billing, scheduling, etc), which makes them more of a physicians practice management (much needed!).

I believe this is a recognition that truly portable medical records is a LONG WAY OFF in the USA. It's a political problem, not a technical problem.

(That DrChrono seems to be reality-based pleased me.)

[ubertaco]

The solution where I work has been to work with payers, healthcare exchanges, and other datasources (like e-pre systems and major lab result companies) on a per-client basis, bringing each client in to help "turn up the heat" as it were on the data vendor (after all, it's the client's data!) and using our product as the sort of "one-stop" endpoint for all this aggregate data.