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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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The Healthcare IT Guy, March 9, 2011 — Shahid Shah
Today, Wil Yu (Special Assistant, Innovations) over at ONC wrote about a new innovation challenge that is giving out money to developers who can create micro apps that run in the new SMART architecture containers. If you’re not familiar with SMART and want a technical introduction, head over to the SMART Wiki; if you just want a quick overview from the business side, check out the home page…
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Health IT Buzz, March 8, 2011 — Wil Yu
Today one of the recipients of the ONC’s Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) announced a major milestone Exit Disclaimer.  Researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, leaders of the Healthcare Applications and Networking Platforms SHARP award, announced a major breakthrough having developed a first of  kind platform architecture to support a flexible health information technology (IT) environment and promote innovation…
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BostInno, March 8, 2011 — Cheryl Morris
New opportunities for innovation in healthcare are everywhere thanks in part to more sophisticated smartphones like the iPhone. And Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School have laid the ground to welcome such innovation, announcing today a $5,000 health app competition alongside release of the equivalent of a health app store…
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mobihealthnews, February 24, 2011 — Brian Dolan
A number of longtime HIMSS attendees, including my colleague Neil Versel, pointed out that this year’s event in Orlando, Fla. had renewed energy. The past two years’ events were more staid on account of the down economy. The magicians at vendor booths had less flourish, anyway…
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Nature Medicine / Spoonful of Medicine, February 24, 2011 — Michelle Pflumm
Two years ago, the US government set aside close to $20 billion in stimulus funds to encourage hospitals and physicians to digitize their patient records as a way to save time and reduce doctor mistakes. But according to a survey published this week, most physicians remain wary of the price of going electronic…
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