Healthcare Software

Exporting Google Health information to CCR and CCD

A blog post by David Kibbe mentions a tool that allows the exporting of a Google Health profile into CCR or CCD xml formats. The tool is called CCR dashboard.

I was intrigued to be able to see a real life example of the two standards based on the same data.

Linking the tool to a google account is easy, it just requires account credentials and to explicitly grant google permission to share your information.

It worked well for the CCR document but the only problem I came across was when exporting to a CCD xml format at which point I got a nice "XML file cannot be displayed" and I wasn't given the ability to save the file to investigate why.

The workaround was to view the page source and then save it which gave me the XML content I needed. To actually be able to view the xml in an editor however, I also had to change the UTF encoding from encoding="utf-16" to encoding="utf-8".

Next, it would be great if the authors of CCR Dashboard considered implementing the ability to export to the HL7 PHM format, one of the Continua-recommended standards for self-monitoring devices. We even got the mapping started for them!