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HHS Doles Out $100K To Help Consumers Share Their Own Health Data

Nextgov: Citizens should be able to more easily share their medical data with health care providers, a Health and Human Services agency claims—and it's funding two projects that came up with easier ways to do that.

One, called DocketTM, used an application programming interface system to allow patients to transmit their medical records to caretakers using a QR code, a pixelated black-and-white image that can be scanned on smartphones. Another, called Live and Leave Well, builds a data package that transmits patients' end of life plans. Both, which rely on a secure authentication protocol to protect sensitive data, received $50,000 from HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Wednesday. Those two projects will be promoted in a public webinar on June 23.

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