SMART will be presenting at the ONC Annaul Meeting on November 17th.
Josh Mandel, lead architect for the SMART team, will be presenting at this year’s ONC Annual Meeting on November 17th. The focus of his presentation will be on SMART’s efforts to engage the developer community in support of the platform. You can get a front row seat to by joining the webcast.
The SMART team has published a new preview release (v0.3) of the SMART platform. With this release, we are rolling out a number of API changes incorporating feedback from the $5K challenge, simplifying some of the infrastructure, and adding some new data types.
The SMART team has published a new preview release (v0.3) of the SMART platform. With this release, we are rolling out a number of API changes incorporating feedback from the $5K challenge, simplifying some of the infrastructure, and adding some new data types. We have already updated the public sandbox with the v0.3 code, as well as the developer’s guide.
One of the main changes with v0.3 is that SMART apps are no longer required to have a bootstrap.html. The apps are now launched directly from index.html with the oauth tokens passed as a get parameter. For a more complete run-down on updating your SMART application code, please see: http://wiki.chip.org/smart-project/index.php/Developers_Documentation:_Changelog
We are looking forward to hearing your thoughts and suggestions about the new release.
Ken Mandl interviewed by WBUR’s Carey Goldberg for the Common Health Blog. He reflects on the demise of Google Health, lessons learned for the health system and for personal health records.
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“Polyglot Systems has developed a number of products that can improve health outcomes and decrease costs. Despite these benefits, achieving widespread adoption is extremely difficult if the products cause any interruption in provider workflow. This makes EMR/EHR integration essential. The SMART Platform offers Polyglot a way to quickly and affordably integrate its products across multiple EMR and EHR systems. By doing so, the SMART Platform lets Polyglot and other innovators deploy their solutions much more broadly and quickly than would otherwise be the case.”
SmartPlanet, June 28, 2011 — Stacy Lipson
Now more than ever, iPhone app developers are offering iPhone applications that will improve patient safety. Polyglot Systems created the Meducation SMART app, which calculates medication lists and offers patients the ability to print and view medication instructions for prescription medications in a dozen languages…
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SMART and i2b2 investigator Shawn Murphy will be presenting SMART at the June 29th i2b2 Academic User’s Group meeting!
BostInno, June 23, 2011 — Cheryl Morris
New opportunities for innovations in the health industry are everywhere, thanks in part to more sophisticated smartphones like the iPhone and Android devices. In early March we highlighted a mobile health app contest being put on by Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School. Winners were announced earlier this week, working to help welcome a new wave of apps to hospitals, patients and physicians…
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On June 16th and 17th, 2011, our judges convened and deliberated to score the apps for the SMART Apps for Health $5,000 Challenge, which opened back in March.
Meducation is the winner.
The Meducation SMART app, created by Polyglot Systems, Inc. – a health IT company with a focus on improving care and access for underserved patient populations – provides multilingual, patient-friendly instructions for medications listed in a physician’s electronic medical record or the personally controlled health record of a patient. The app uses the SMART programming interface to obtain the medication list and then links out to a drug information database, which facilitates the generation of simplified medication instructions for patients, available in a dozen languages.
In addition to the winner, several selected as honorable mentions:
You can view all the submitted apps at http://smartapps.challenge.gov/submissions.
Current-stage EMRs decide if, when, and how you will view the data trapped in their systems. The SMART Platform Apps Challenge was designed to demonstrate what can happen when electronic health information becomes liberated and can be readily consumed by computer applications. iPhone and Android app developers have been very successful because the address book and GPS data in those platforms is clearly and consistently presented by the platform. Our goal is to present health data in as useful and consistent format. Based on the submissions we received, we think we have demonstrated that this approach can be successful.
That we had so many excellent applicants reflects the hunger and need felt in the community to deliver innovative healthcare applications directly to doctors and patients without having to learn the details of a large, monolithic EMR
Congratulations to our winner and honorable mentions!
The SMART team is working on creating a blood pressure centiles SMART app for initial deployment at Children’s Hospital, Boston. There aren’t standard cutoffs for normal pediatric blood pressures. For kids, the normal blood pressure depends upon height and gender. Unfortunately, looking up these normal blood pressures is pretty time consuming. Thus, we’re working with a great, transdisciplinary group of docs at Children’s to create an app that will do the calculating for them and give them more time with their patients. One of those docs is cardiologist Justin Zachariah, M.D., M.P.H. He said, “What you have already created is definitely a quantum leap forward compared to where we are now.” Through SMART, we’ll be able to make this app available to other SMART-enabled systems.
