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Congratulations, SMART-Indivo Challenge Winners!

Also read about Meducation, winner of our 2011 SMART Apps for Health Challenge.

Thanks to the winning entries in the SMART-Indivo App Challenge, patients may one day find themselves using tools like these within the Indivo personally-controlled health record (PCHR):

  • Webnotes—to clip, organize, and share health information snippets from the web with their care networks.
  • My Health Plus—to view and update their personal health information through a dashboard that adds visualizations of vital signs and integrates disease prevention information from sources on the web.
  • rxInfo—to visualize their data in graph form, download their records according to the VA’s Blue Button protocols, or search government directories for health centers, drug labels, drug interactions, or clinical trials.

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Top 10 science and innovation trends for 2013

Vector, January 16, 2013 — Tom Ulrich
Vector has been deliberating about its predictions for 2013, consulting its many informants. Here’s where we’re putting our money this year; if you have other ideas, scroll to the bottom and let us know.
Genome sequencing scaling up at health care institutions
Last year we predicted genome sequencing’s entry into the clinic; this could be the year it goes viral….
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TEDMED 2013 Announces First 10 Speakers and Launches Two New Initiatives to Drive Innovation and Collaboration

PR Newswire, January 14, 2013 — Rogers & Cowan for TEDMED
TEDMED to Host “Great Challenges Day” and “The Hive,” Gathering of Entrepreneurs and Innovators in Health, Medicine — 50+ Speakers and 1,500 Delegates to Explore the Future of Medicine, Healthcare and Technology in Washington, DC, April 16-19, 2013; Event to be Simulcast Globally
TEDMED, the annual multi-disciplinary gathering where leaders from all sectors of society come together to explore the promise of technology and potential of human achievement in health and medicine, has announced the first 10 of its speakers and two new collaboration and innovation initiatives for 2013…
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How’s TEDMED 2013 shaping up? Here are the first 10 speakers

MedCity News, January 4, 2013 — Chris Seper
Jay Walker’s TEDMED has started to unveil what 2013′s Davos of Healthcare will look like. The first 10 TEDMED speakers have been revealed. The list shows TEDMED 2013, which is set for April 16 through 19, will stick with its theme of mixing hot-button current events and 50,000-foot thinking with medical rock stars and creatives from the arts and other disciplines. And at least two topics look to get special attention: health and wellness and big data…
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A glimpse of what’s ahead in medicine

The Boston Globe, December 31, 2012 — Chelsea Conaboy
Plenty has been written this year about the history of medicine through the lens of the New England Journal of Medicine, which celebrated its 200th anniversary.
The journal created a website chronicling medical advancements through the past two centuries, many of which were highlighted during a symposium held in June.
In an editorial published Thursday on the journal’s website, two top editors join Dr. Isaac Kohane of…
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Better Systems for Clinical Data Collaboration: Innovation in Systems and Software

Koa Lab, November 19, 2012 — Andy Palmer
In my last two posts, I wrote about the need for more liquidity in clinical research data.  As a foundation for sharing this new more-liquid clinical research data, we need more patient-centric systems, where patients can create, consume and maintain relevant medical information…
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AMIA 2012 Proceedings

AMIA members, if you missed the symposium in Chicago but want to learn more about the SMART team’s presentations, our materials are now published in the Proceedings. (If you are not an AMIA member, you will have access to a limited number of pages.)

Apps to display patient data, making SMART available in the i2b2 platform

Building the SMART Platforms Ecosystem: Toward an Apps-Based Health Information Economy

Supporting Population Queries and Clinical Trials in i2b2 with SMART

Integrating Substitutable Medical Apps, Reusable Technologies (SMART) in the i2b2 Platform

Guiding the Design of Evaluations of Innovations in Health Informatics: a Framework and a Case Study of the SMArt SHARP Evaluation

Did policymakers choose the wrong path?

EHRWatch, November 13, 2012 — Jeff Rowe
How’s that country song go?  “Looking for love in all the wrong places”?
If you don’t mind us channeling our inner Waylon Jennings, that’s what came to mind when we read an article about one health IT observer, who has argued that “Healthcare quality and efficiency could move forward 20 years in a matter of months if only there were true interoperability of…
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Interoperability: Quick Route To Better Care

InformationWeek Healthcare, November 12, 2012 — Neil Versel
Critic chides policymakers for downplaying standards and usability in Meaningful Use Stage 1 at American Medical Informatics Association meeting.
Healthcare quality and efficiency could move forward 20 years in a matter of months if only there were true interoperability of electronic health information, according to a noted critic of the health IT industry.
In the opinion of University of Pennsylvania sociologist Ross Koppel, interoperability would help unlock…
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AMIA: Why interoperability is ‘taking so darn long’

Healthcare IT News, November 8, 2012 — Neil Versel
CHICAGO – Hospitals can have hundreds of IT systems. Vendors have built proprietary databases. Not everyone follows the same standards. Health systems fear sharing data with competitors. Policymakers have not focused on health information exchange or EHR usability.
These are just a few of the reasons why true interoperability of health information remains so elusive, according to a panel of informatics luminaries….
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