Healthcare IT News, February 22, 2011 — Mike Miliard
Several leaders of the Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects Program (SHARP) showed HIMSS11 attendees how they are – in the words of Charles Friedman, PhD, chief science officer of the ONC – “moving the needle forward” on breakthrough healthcare technology…
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US CTO Aneesh Chopra announces the SMART Health App $5000 Challenge
On Tuesday, November 9, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra delivered a keynote address with Bill Gates at the 2010 mHealth Summit in Washington, D.C., featuring the efforts of Kenneth Mandl, MD, MPH, and Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD, of the Children’s Hospital Boston Informatics Program and Harvard Medical School, and the “SMART” (Substitutable Medical Applications, reusable technologies) project.
Mr. Chopra gave an overview of the project and announced a competition that will begin in March, challenging developers to create a health IT application that provides specific functionality for patients, physicians, or for public health, based on the Boston team’s SMART platform architecture and a common electronic medical record interface.
SMART seeks to recruit and support a new generation of innovators by providing a common interface to multiple HIT platforms. The SMART Health App $5,000 Challenge is to develop web apps that use the SMART API to provide value to patients, providers, researchers, and public health. Examples of such applications are medication management tools, health risk detectors, and e-prescribing applications.
A panel of acclaimed judges is being assembled to review submitted apps and will include Regina Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School; David Kibbe of the The Kibbe Group LLC and Director of the Center for Health Information Technology at the American Academy of Family Physicians; Doug Solomon, Chief Technology Officer at IDEO; Edward Tufte, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Statistics, and Computer Science at Yale University, and Jim Walker, Chief Health Information Officer at Geisenger Health Systems.
The challenge will open in March 2011.
Interested applicants can learn more and register their interest at www.SMArtPlatforms.org/challenge
Serving the enterprise and beyond with informatics for integrating biology and the bedside (i2b2)
Murphy, S. N., Weber, G., Mendis, M., Gainer, V., Chueh, H. C., Churchill, S., and Kohane, I. Serving the enterprise and beyond with informatics for integrating biology and the bedside (i2b2). J Am Med Inform Assoc 2010;17:124-30
Sharing Medical Data for Health Research: The Early Personal Health Record Experience
Weitzman E.R,, Kaci, L., and D., Mandl K. Sharing Medical Data for Health Research: The Early Personal Health Record Experience. J Med Internet Res 2010;e14
Update on Modular EHR Technology: Harvard’s SMArt Research
Kibbe and Klepper on Health Care, October 5, 2010 — David Kibbe and Brian Klepper
ONC awarded four Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Project (SHARP) grants earlier this year to ”…address well-documented problems that have impeded adoption of health IT and to accelerate progress towards achieving nationwide meaningful use of health IT in support of a high-performing, learning health care system.”…
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Resources from Developers Meeting
We now have several resources that were created and used for our developers meeting available.
SMART Architecture Slideshow
SMART Governance Slideshow
SMART Demo Screencast
SMArt Health
The Huffington Post, September 9, 2010 — Ron Gutman
The remarkable report “Initial Lessons From the First National Demonstration Project on Practice Transformation to a Patient-Centered Medical Home,” in the May/June Annals of Family Medicine, makes this point about the state of primary care information technology (IT): “Technology needed for the PCMH [patient-centered medical home] is not plug and play. … The hodgepodge of information technology marketed to primary care practices resembles more a pile of jigsaw pieces than components of an integrated and interoperable system.”…
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Is Healthcare Ready for SMArt’er Applications??
CONNECT Blog, September 2, 2010 — Greg Fairnak
The researchers at Harvard University think so and so do I. Last week I had the chance to attend the first developer’s conference for the Substitutable Medical Applications, reusable technologies, or SMArt. The architecture will provide a set of core services to facilitate substitutable healthcare applications, or plug-ins, similar to the App Store found in the iPad, iTouch or Droid. In attendance were open source solution vendors, healthcare IT thought leaders (Stan Huff and John Halamka), commercial healthcare application vendors, researchers, software developers and federal healthcare agency representatives (FDA, VA and DoD)….
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Clinical Groupware: Platforms, Not Software
The Health Care Blog, April 24, 2010 — David Kibbe
Clinical Groupware is rapidly gaining acceptance as a term describing a new class of affordable, ergonomic, and Web-based care management tools. Since David first articulated Clinical Groupware’s conceptual framework on this blog early last year, we’ve been discussing Clinical Groupware with a growing number of people and organizations who want to know what it is, where it’s going, and what problems it may solve, particularly for small and medium size medical practices, their patients and their institutional/corporate sponsors and networks…
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Health IT in the cloud: A long road
Mass High Tech, June 24, 2010 — James M. Connolly
Using cloud computing in the health information technology sector makes sense from a cost basis, but it could take years for health-care providers and patients to develop solid confidence in the security of patient data in cloud environments…
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