Tony McCormick has worked in various health IT care related activities for the last 30 years, including Medical Practices, Health Maintenance Organizations, Preferred Provider Organizations and charity clinics.
He is also a steering committee member and integrator of http://LibreHealth.io for the LibreEHR (http://libreehr.org).
He is a long time contributor/committer and former board member of the OpenEMR project (http://www.open-emr.org), a GPL licensed project.
He is the CTO and President of Medical Information Integration,LLC in Oregon (http://www.mi-squared.com) and Technical Director of Vircon Solutions, Ltd, in Ireland (http://virconhealth.com).
Projects include work designing and developing data collection systems for the health care industry using open source based solutions.
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While this is not a new opinion, I find it good to be reminded occasionally of the tenants. It is so easy to get caught up in the current project and forget about the community and the need to make the decisions in public not in private email conversations, which is so much easier....
With ONC meaningful use rules requiring patients "Timely Access" to health records in electronic format, I don't see the "big box" providers playing a role in storing this data for very long. The providers, individual and institutional, will need to evolve to support a standard format (CCR/CCD, likely) and a standard connection (DIRECT?) that can be sent to or retrieved by the patient using their OWN technology, desktop app, phone app etc. Who they choose to share that data with will then be completely in the patient's control.