Obama's administration wants “to ensure that within five years, all of America’s medical records are computerized.” It is obvious at this point, that a good portion of the spend will be in a form of subsidies to physician practices and hence I decided to alleviate my primary care physician of converting one additional record. I am starting a quest on digitizing my health. As an advocate of Healthcare technology I am actually embarrassed that I do not have an encrypted XML file with all my data in it. I want it portable, transportable and secure. I want my lab test results charted year to year like my quickbooks tracks my checking account. 

Step 1, request my paper records. Sent an email to my PCP

Step 2, find a provider or a clinical scribe to transcribe all that data (any ICR/OCR software that can help here :). If anyone has any suggestions contact me info at nyhto.org

Step 3, contact my PCP again to find out if he is participating in the Quest Diagnostics and Google Health program (here)

Step 4, anyone willing to sponsor my genetic test on 23andme?

Step 5, I already have a Google Health account but it is pretty useless at the moment

Step 6, Get a list of medication that I got at retail form my pbm - hopefully import it into Google Health

And the journey to the nucleus of my health begins.