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iOS HealthKit is able to display locally the HL7 CDA documents a patient download from a Patient Portal.

Does Google Fit include a HL7 CDA viewer like iOS HealthKit does?

Kara
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  • I'm not too familiar with iOS HealthKit. Can you provide more details as to what the *viewer* actually does? Are the HL7 CDA documents a specific file (what file type) that is stored locally and then opened using the HealthKit? Or is it just like a PDF file? – AL. Mar 14 '17 at 11:11
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    HL7 CDA is the standard way of representing clinical documents ([link]http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/product_brief.cfm?product_id=7). On iOS HealthKit if you get an HL7 CDA, for example downloaded form a patient portal, you are able to save it locally to health kit, and view it with its HL7 build in CDA viewer. – Marti Pàmies Solà Mar 15 '17 at 15:36

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Answer:

There is currently no option/function to view HL7 CDA files with the use of Google Fit.

Stuff (that I learned) that may help other who read this in the future:

The way I understood things after skimming through the HL7 link you provided in the comments and with the some other sources (Apple HealthKit, 9to5mac post), the data included in the HL7 CDA files are clinically in-depth. From the HL7 link:

A CDA can contain any type of clinical content -- typical CDA documents would be a Discharge Summary, Imaging Report, Admission & Physical, Pathology Report and more.

This caters to almost (if not) all health related documents, wherein Google Fit focuses more on (if not solely to) Fitness.

With all that said, basing from the 9to5mac post, it seems that the HL7 CDA files are actually XML files. So I guess what you could do is implement an XML parser and display the files the in a more neat and organized way (similar to how HealthKit does it, I guess).

I also did a quick search to see if maybe I can give you some references, but it looks like no one has done a HL7 CDA viewer app/library for Android yet.

AL.
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