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Developing a Third-Party Analytics Application Using Australia's National Personal Health Records System: Case Study
Niranjan Bidargaddi1,2, Yasmin van Kasteren3, Peter Musiat1
1Digital Psychiatry & Personal Health Informatics Lab, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
JMIR Medical Informatics
|April 26, 2018
Summary
Developing third-party applications for Australia's My Health Record (MyHR) faces technical and regulatory hurdles. Addressing these challenges can foster a vibrant ecosystem of innovative health applications for patients and clinicians.
Area of Science:
- Health Informatics
- Software Engineering
- Digital Health
Background:
- My Health Record (MyHR) is Australia's national electronic health record (EHR) system.
- Low usability and functionality have limited MyHR's utility and user participation.
- There is a need for research into developing third-party applications for EHR data integration.
Purpose of the Study:
- To describe the challenges in developing a novel patient and clinician web-based software application for MyHR.
- To provide insights from the pioneering development experience of a third-party MyHR application.
Main Methods:
- A case study approach was used to investigate the development and implementation of Actionable Intime Insights (AI²).
- AI² translates Medicare claims data from MyHR into a health data timeline visualization.
- The study identified challenges faced by the Personal Health Informatics team in the MyHR third-party development environment.
Main Results:
- A nuanced understanding of MyHR data types, quality, and complexities for secondary-use applications was achieved.
- Development encountered regulatory requirements for MyHR data utilization, data visualization restrictions, and third-party application testing processes.
Conclusions:
- Several process, technical, and regulatory barriers were identified that hinder MyHR's potential as a health application ecosystem.
- Addressing these barriers can encourage the Australian Digital Health Agency and national bodies to foster innovative EHR use cases.
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