SMART Health App $5000 Challenge

The SMART $5K Apps Challenge is now closed to entries, but you can still learn about it at our Challenge.gov page!

Our panel of judges are currently reviewing the entries, and winners will be announced on June 22nd.

SMART wishes to thank our eminent panel of judges:

Susannah Fox
Director of Health Research at the Pew Internet & American Life Project

Regina Herzlinger
Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

David Kibbe
Director, Center for Health Information Technology, American Academy of Family Physicians
The Kibbe Group LLC

Ben Shneiderman
Professor of Computer Science at the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland, College Park

Doug Solomon
Chief Technology Officer at IDEO

Edward Tufte
Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Statistics, and Computer Science at Yale University

Jim Walker
Chief Health Information Officer, Geisinger Health Systems


April 27th Webinar: How to Become a SMART Container

SMART Webinar April 27

Learn how your health IT system can harness the power of the developer community.

The SMART (Substitutable Medical Apps, Reusable Technologies) project is working to lower the barriers for external developers to create innovative healthcare apps. A SMART-enabled health IT system will be positioned to take advantage of these innovations and make them available to its users.

Attend our webinar and learn how your health IT system can become SMART.
April 27, 2011 2:00 – 3:00 P.M. Eastern

http://hms.webex.com/hms/j.php?ED=140265297&UID=0&PW=NY2QzZGM4OTBk&RT=Mi
MxMQ%3D%3D Meeting Number: 716 280 736 Meeting Password: SHARP

To join the audio conference only:
Call-in toll-free number (US/Canada): 1-866-699-3239
Call-in toll number (US/Canada): 1-408-792-6300
Access code: 716 280 736

Open Source in Good Health and Vice Versa

ComputerworldUK, April 5, 2011 — Glyn Moody
Last week I wrote about the UK government’s “new” IT strategy, which is designed in part to avoid some of the costly mistakes of the past. And as far as the latter go, there aren’t many bigger or costlier than the NHS National Programme for Information Technology (NpfIT)…
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