I would actually like to talk to you more about this.. I have a (very early stage) startup on the side called Ditto Health that is using the Direct Project as a model to make it easy to transfer data between health care providers and patients.
The problems with Google Health are exactly what you said. Put another way, they positioned themselves as an endpoint and made it Everyone Else's Problem to send their medical data into their repository.
Health care providers aren't interested in hiring programmers to send their data into another system for no benefit to them. They have already invested plenty of time and money in EHR systems, and want to get data from all other places (some electronic, some paper) into their own system. And it should go without saying that this needs to be done in a HIPAA compliant way.
Anyway, I'm always interested to talk more about this stuff, feel free to contact me at the email provided in my profile and maybe we can work with your agency.
I always thought Google Health could make a fortune for the middle-man, if some of the OP's problems were addressed. It's perfect for it - a very complicated set-up, and no marketing, but the final benefits are enormous and easy to understand. You could start by signing up your parents, then charge their friends and etc some nominal fee for setting everything up...
The problems with Google Health are exactly what you said. Put another way, they positioned themselves as an endpoint and made it Everyone Else's Problem to send their medical data into their repository.
Health care providers aren't interested in hiring programmers to send their data into another system for no benefit to them. They have already invested plenty of time and money in EHR systems, and want to get data from all other places (some electronic, some paper) into their own system. And it should go without saying that this needs to be done in a HIPAA compliant way.
Anyway, I'm always interested to talk more about this stuff, feel free to contact me at the email provided in my profile and maybe we can work with your agency.