Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Google Health Viewer

I am preparing to take on the task of writing a Google Health Viewer for Android phones. I have done a bit of background reading, but still not enough to launch into the project. What I'm wondering, by publishing this post, is whether there are like-minded collaborators out there, also interested in such a product.

Firstly, I should state that it's my wish to make this an open-source project, and, like the Google Health service itself, be a free app.

I know a lot of folk have concerns about Digital Medical Records, but surely the usefulness, and potentially life-saving benefits to come from it outweigh whatever overly sensitive, and largely unfounded anxieties we have about privacy?

So, if anyone's interested just bung a comment to this post. Would be interested in knowing if things like useful wrapper classes on the Google Data API's are available? Or even ready-made classes for Google Health data entities themselves?