We recently posted about Ken Mandl’s participation in a panel at the OSEHRA 1st Annual Open Source EHR Summit and Workshop. Audio and slides are now available to those with OSEHRA user accounts; scroll to Day One, 3pm, “Open Source Best Practice and Business Models.”
Now we’d like to back up and talk briefly about OSEHRA itself, and share links that highlight its relationship to SMART.
SMART Lead Architect Josh Mandel and Evaluator Ross Koppel will speak in the following late-breaking session.
LB05: Interoperability: Why is it Taking so Darn Long?
Tuesday, November 6 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Room: Continental A
Gil Kuperman, New York Presbyterian Hospital; Harry Solomon, GE Healthcare; Ross Koppel, University of Pennsylvania; Charles Jaffe, HL7, Joshua Mandel, Children’s Hospital Boston, Douglas B. Fridsma, Office of the National Coordinator for HIT
Questions abound around why it’s taking so long to achieve practical interoperability in the US health system? Patients and their advocates wonder why can’t the records of care at one institution easily be merged with the records of care somewhere else? Or why can’t health information interoperate on the Internet the way that so many other types of industries do? Those in the industry debate the level of difficulty around technical problems and standards.
AMIA 2012 SPC Chair Bill Hersh, MD, asked recently “is it something inherent in the nature of clinical data, such as concern for privacy or the economic aspects of healthcare that lead to organizations not wanting to share data?”
This panel will examine the potential for interoperability to improve care, the role of standards organizations in advancing interoperability and what is needed beyond standards per se to support interoperability-based use cases. Whoever or whatever is at fault, the problem is that in the eyes of many, including AMIA members, interoperability is not happening fast enough. In other words “why is it taking so darn long?”
The AMIA 2012 Annual Symposium begins today in Chicago, where it is currently “Informatics Week” as declared by Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
SMART will be highlighted in Scientific Sessions S27 & S33 on Monday and S94 & S99 on Wednesday, as well as in Poster Session 2 on Tuesday.
A section of our site is now devoted to coverage of the meeting held on September 10-11, including video and slides from keynotes, talks and panels, and a summary report from the meeting.
The meeting brought together over 100 thought leaders and affirmed the importance of developing and maintaining a standard programming interface to underpin an “app store” for health. We began to outline the actions required to create an ecosystem of health IT apps that use EHR data and enable a nimble and constantly evolving health system. Collaborations will soon be underway to define the technical approach and governance for supporting an API standard similar to the SMART Platforms alpha releases.
Yesterday, SMART’s Ken Mandl sat on a panel discussing “Open Source Best Practice and Business Models.” He was joined by US CTO Todd Park, FDA CIO Eric Perakslis, and Netspective CEO Shahid Shah. The session was moderated by BIDMC CIO John Halamka.
The panel was part of OSEHRA’s 1st Annual Open Source EHR Summit and Workshop, taking place October 17-18. OSEHRA, the Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent, “supports an open, collaborative community of users, developers, and companies engaged in advancing electronic health record software and health information technology.”
American Medical News, October 10, 2012 — Pamela Lewis Dolan
A report by an Institute of Medicine panel calls for a central, public database featuring insights from health information technology users.
Practices shopping for an electronic health record system or seeking to improve an existing system should have a central clearinghouse of reviews, feedback and tips from other users, says an Institute of Medicine discussion paper. The paper, published in September, is intended to foster discussion of a recommendation the IOM made in an earlier report that examined ways EHRs can be improved. The institute recommended that the Dept. of Health…
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After attending last week’s Harvard Health IT Meeting (“ITdotHealth II”), HealthVault’s Sean Nolan got right to work on an app that enables providers to send their patients a copy of their clinical information as a Continuity of Care Document.
Susannah Fox, an Associate Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, was at Medicine 2.0 over the weekend. In addition to speaking on a panel, she shared her impressions of Day One on the e-patients.net blog, including a reference to the SMART Platforms presentation and enthusiasm about our clinician-facing apps.
The following is an overview of the conference, held September 10-11, 2012. In several weeks, we will post a complete executive summary, as well as videos and slide presentations from the event.
The concept of substitutable apps has become a reality, as multiple examples illustrate—such as the blood pressure app, now in live clinical use on the Cerner System at Boston Children’s Hospital: Continue reading “Summary of “ITdotHealth II” – the 2012 Harvard Health IT Meeting”
Medicine 2.0, the World Congress on Social Media, Mobile Apps, and Internet/Web 2.0 in Health, Medicine and Biomedical Research, has landed in Boston for its 5th annual conference! The agenda will feature two SMART-related presentations:
Both presentations are part of the session on Web 2.0 approaches for clinical practice, clinical research, quality monitoring to be held in the large auditorium tomorrow (Saturday, 9/15) at 2:00-2:45 p.m. (see page 13 of the final program).
The conference is sold out, but you can still register for the Webcast.