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.
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Summary of “ITdotHealth II” – the 2012 Harvard Health IT Meeting
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”
SMART at Medicine 2.0 Boston Tomorrow
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:
- SMART Platforms: Creating the “App Store” for Health
- Medical App Stores, Physician Cognitive Overload, and Research Data Repositories: an Integration
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.
Growth of SMART health care apps may be slow, but inevitable
O’Reilly Radar, September 13, 2012 — Andy Oram
Harvard Medical School conference lays out uses for a health data platform.
This week has been teeming with health care conferences, particularly in Boston, and was declared by President Obama to be National Health IT Week as well. I chose to spend my time at the second ITdotHealth conference, where I enjoyed many intense conversations with some of the leaders in the health care field…
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Harvard Health IT Meeting: O’Reilly Radar Coverage
In his piece “Growth of SMART health care apps may be slow, but inevitable,” Andy Oram sums up this week’s Harvard Health IT Meeting, aka ITdotHealth II.
Stay tuned to the SMART Platforms site over the next several weeks for complete, in-depth coverage of the conference.
New app distills the fine art of interpreting a child’s blood pressure
Vector, September 12, 2012 — Nancy Fleisler
The Affordable Care Act, now the law of the land, mandates free blood pressure screening for children as part of their health care coverage. Yet often hypertension in children is missed, while other children get evaluated and sometimes treated for high blood pressure readings that turn out to have been transient (often induced by kids’ fear of doctors). That has cardiologists like Justin Zachariah, MD, MPH, concerned…
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Halamka Recaps Participation in ITdotHealth II
On his Life as a Healthcare CIO blog, John Halamka gives a synopsis of his contribution to ITdotHealth II. He was among the panelists speaking Monday on “Apps and APIs: Innovating Around Vendor and Homegrown EHRs.” His summary addresses the issue from federal, state, and local perspectives.
How to Build a Successful API
In Suddenly it’s all about the APIs, Microsoft HealthVault’s Sean Nolan outlines six key challenges to building an API that is desirable to developers—whose adoption of it, or lack thereof, will make or break its survival in the marketplace.
Lilly’s “Open Clinical Intelligence Network” Aligned With Substitutability
Tom Krohn, an attendee to the recent Health IT Meeting at Harvard (“ITdotHealth II”), is the business lead for the Eli Lilly Clinical Open Innovation team. Leading up to the meeting, he wrote about the ways his team’s approach aligns with SMART.
Inflexible, Big-Box EHRs Endanger the QI Movement
The Hospitalist, September, 2012 — Win Whitcomb
In “The Lean Startup,” author Eric Ries notes that in its early stages, his gaming company would routinely issue new versions of their software application several times each day. Continuous deployment—the process Ries’ company used—leveraged such Lean principles as reduced batch size and continuous learning based on end-user feedback to achieve rapid improvements in their product…
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