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O’Reilly Radar, March 23, 2011 — Andy Oram
In a country where doctors are still struggling to transfer basic patient information (such as continuity of care records) from one clinic to another, it may seem premature to think about seamless data exchange between a patient and multiple care organizations to support such things as real-time interventions in patient behavior and better clinical decision support. But this is precisely what medicine will need for the next breakthrough in making patients better and reducing costs. And many of the building blocks have recently fallen into place…
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Government Technology, March 14, 2011 — Sarah Rich
Web app contests like NYC BigApps continue fostering new ways to access public data — and these challenges are now making their way into the medical field. But before these medical apps get too far along, they need the proper platform and interface. That’s where the Substitutable Medical Applications, reusable technologies (SMART) platform comes in. In April 2010, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology awarded $15 million to researchers at the Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School to design SMART…
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Read Mr. Chopra’s White House blog here. He states, “This development will dramatically expand the market for health IT by offering applications that can meet any niche and any need – from individual consumers to small practices to large organizations—thereby making the transformative power of health IT felt more fully and broadly.”

Deloitte Review, 2011 — Vikram Mahidhar
The fast-moving frontier of new technologies and business models is challenging traditional models of innovation. Historically, larger companies, universities or government agencies with deep pockets have often brought forth the ideas that shape business and society. More recently, though, the advent of new digital infrastructures such as cloud computing, mobile and online social networks is enabling small groups of individuals with small investments to create big impact…
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iHealthBeat, March 10, 2011
Researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School recently announced the public release of an interoperability platform and interface designed to support the development of innovative health-related Web applications, Modern Healthcare reports…
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The White House, March 10, 2011 — Aneesh Chopra
This week a research team at Children’s Hospital of Boston and Harvard Medical School launched a prize to encourage innovative app developers to build new products and services that benefit patients and providers. The prize was created with funding from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT within the Department of Health and Human Services, and constitutes just the latest in a growing number of examples of the Federal government fostering R&D collaboration through open innovation…
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Government Health IT, March 10, 2011 — Mary Mosquera
Programmers and developers can win $5,000 for creating online tools that offer specific functionality for patients, physicians and public health on an “íPhone-like” health IT platform model, which is now publicly available…
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Healthcare IT News, March 10, 2011 — Bernie Monegain
A new platform created specifically to boost healthcare IT innovation is now available to the public, kicking off a $5,000 competition that challenges developers to create Web applications for patients, physicians and public health…
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mobihealthnews, March 10, 2011 — Neil Versel
Researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School this week opened a previously announced competition to develop “iPhone-like” applications to help unlock data stored in electronic health records. While the focus is on Web apps, the federally funded contest is encouraging submissions for mobile tablets, with a promise of “further optimization for smaller screens” such as smartphones by summer…
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Modern Healthcare, March 9, 2011 — Joseph Conn
Federally funded researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School have released a healthcare interoperability platform and interface “to support a flexible health information technology environment and promote innovation,” according to a news release…
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