PING is a distributed, Web-based, personally
controlled electronic medical record system that
is ubiquitously accessible to the nomadic user and
built to public standards. It is essentially an
inversion of the current approach to medical
records, in that the record resides with the
patients, who grant permissions to the
institutions, clinicians, researchers, and other
users of the medical information. It includes
various tools and APIs that address the technical
aspects of personally controlled health records.
Some of these include a Servlet-based, pluggable,
Web services server, a Java Swing-based
application for viewing and manipulating records,
and an application for generating bar codes used
to fax documents into a record.
