Here's what I would like, and what they (AC) could easily do.
I know that many commercial suites/applications, including enterprize EMR vendors, provide read-only access to the data (called "views" in SQL parlance). These views can be PW protected for use by by non-SA (the system administrator user name) users to extract data. Databases remain unchanged.

I really want to my hands on my data, I mean, really!

There is some reasonable data export via the reports function. In other ways very limited, for instance: I have a query into GA support as I can not find a date field for the imported labs. I could export all creatinine values by patient, for instance, but alas, the report excel file has no date attached to the result. Worthless!!!

The fact is AC DOES give access to their database: to Updox for instance.

The MU wizard is great, as an example of what to do with data.

AC users have a wide variety of technophiles. Loosen the strangle hold on the data some, and see terrific ideas and even add-ons that would flow forth!


Roger
(Nephrology)
Do the right thing. The rest doesn?t matter. Cold or warm. Tired or well-rested. Despised or honored. ? --Marcus Aurelius --