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Indivo Users Webinar, June 3rd, 2011

The development team for Indivo X, the SMART-enabled, open source personally controlled health record platform, is going to conduct a webinar on June 3rd. 2011. Topics will include: the current state of the platform and API; ongoing projects in the Indivo X ecosystem, including the use of Indivo X in a patient portal and in an online social network; a proposed roadmap for upcoming features and enhancements, such as plans to support the Direct Project.

Please register here if you plan to join us on June 3rd. We’ll send you an invitation with instructions to join the webinar shortly before the event. An in person meeting will be planned for sometime thereafter. Please go to www.indivohealth.org to learn more about Indivo X.

Indivo Users Webinar Agenda

Friday, June 3, 2011

12Noon Welcome and Intro

12:15pm Indivo X

12:25pm Indivo X Ecosystem

1:05pm Indivo X Roadmap

  • Pluggable Schemas
  • Enhanced Database Support
  • Event Encapsulation
  • www.SMARTPlatforms.org API Support
  • Direct Implementation

1:40pm Q&A

2:00pm Adjourn

Indivo X at OSCON 2011

Indivo X is the SMART-enabled, open source personally controlled health record platform. Daniel Haas, the platform’s lead architect, will be delivering a talk on the architecture of and security implications of Indivo X, its place in the open source community, its prospects for future development, and its relationship to SMART Platforms. Details about his talk can be found here: http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/public/schedule/detail/19713.

You can learn more about Indivo X at http://indivohealth.org

SMART Health App $5000 Challenge

The SMART $5K Apps Challenge is now closed to entries, but you can still learn about it at our Challenge.gov page!

Our panel of judges are currently reviewing the entries, and winners will be announced on June 22nd.

SMART wishes to thank our eminent panel of judges:

Susannah Fox
Director of Health Research at the Pew Internet & American Life Project

Regina Herzlinger
Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

David Kibbe
Director, Center for Health Information Technology, American Academy of Family Physicians
The Kibbe Group LLC

Ben Shneiderman
Professor of Computer Science at the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland, College Park

Doug Solomon
Chief Technology Officer at IDEO

Edward Tufte
Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Statistics, and Computer Science at Yale University

Jim Walker
Chief Health Information Officer, Geisinger Health Systems


Open Source in Good Health and Vice Versa

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Smart Apps for Health Challenge – Nudging You to Participate

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Ecosystems for Innovation: An interview with U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra

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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Researchers Unveil Platform To Kick Off Contest for Health Apps

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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SMArt Prize for Patients, Physicians, and Researchers

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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