How to add a biometric measurement not supported by HealthVault

Question

Okay i got customers that want to keep track of their bowel movement! I added that to my android app but now i want to upload that measurement to HealthVault. However "bowel movement" or something similar is not defined as a thing type in HealthVault. So which data type should i use?

Is there a way to add a measurement that is not defined by a thing type?

Peter

Answer 1

Hi Peter,

I would recommend that you use a custom data type - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericgu/archive/2007/10/29/healthvault-data-types-a-custom-data-type-architecture.aspx.

Thank you.

-Suzanne

Answer 2

Thanks. I have been looking into this already but somehow i cannot find any java example on how to this. Is there any?

Peter

Answer 3

Hi Peter,

I am not aware of any java examples, however that would be a better question to ask on the discussion list for the Java open source SDK, http://healthvaultjavalib.codeplex.com/discussions.

Thank you.

-Suzanne