Community Health Center, Inc., May 1, 2013 — Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter
PODCAST: This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Kenneth Mandl, Director of the Intelligent Health Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Mandl is a pioneer in consumer information technologies and biosurveillance, creating platforms for sharing big health data as well as assisting the…..
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Progress toward interoperability in healthcare remains slow
SearchHealthIT, April 30, 2013 — Ed Burns
Recent months have seen a number of initiatives intended to advance interoperability in healthcare. Some see these moves as being—at best—baby steps toward solving the system’s connectivity challenges, while others say they continue to push the industry down a misguided path….
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Query Health: Interoperability for Population Data
One of our fellow travelers on the ONC’s interoperability journey is Query Health. Like the SMART platform architecture, Query Health defines a standard framework for looking at medical record data. While SMART focuses on a single-patient view of that data, Query Health is designed to ask questions about a broad swath of patients so that clinical quality trends can be observed.
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Global Design Studio Adds SMART App to Portfolio
Doctors and parents alike are frustrated by today’s standard growth charts. For a fresh look at how to fix this, the SMART team turned to the New York studio of Fjord, a global service design consultancy. Read their case study to see how they worked with a panel of pediatric specialists to turn medical intuition into design thinking, integrating “multiple graphs into a single view to gain a detailed, all-encompassing picture of a child’s health.”
Health IT’s Manhattan project
Government Health IT, April 27, 2010 — Brian Robinson
With all the talk about the politics of health reform, it’s easy to forget that a major driver of the landmark legislation will be the expanded use of health IT. The award in early April of four $15 million contracts seeking health IT research “breakthroughs” was a timely reminder of its importance…
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Medical Informatics: Apps, not data warehouses, are wave of future
“We need apps to solve specific problems, not warehouses to store data,” said Jon D’Amore, founder of Clinfometrics, echoing the SMART approach at the Medical Informatics World Conference on April 8. Story in Clinical Innovation + Technology by Laura Pedulli.
6 Big Data Analytics Use Cases for Healthcare IT
CIO, April 23, 2013 — Brian Eastwood
Making use of the petabytes of patient data that healthcare organizations possess requires extracting it from legacy systems, normalizing it and then building applications that can make sense of it. That’s a tall order, but the facilities that pull it off can learn a lot…
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Webinar Video with Transcript: Getting SMART about C-CDA
Enjoy this interactive transcript of Josh Mandel’s popular webinar about SMART’s open-source tools, synchronized to the video recording. Now you can:
- Follow along in the text as the video plays
- Click any word in the transcript to jump to its location in the video
- Search for a specific keyword and then jump to each occurrence of that word
- View the transcript in “scan view,” similar to a word cloud
- Print the transcript
- Download the transcript
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Two Contrasting Approaches to Health Care’s API Revolution
The Health Care Blog, April 11, 2013 — Andy Oram
As the health care field inches toward adoption of the computer technologies that have streamlined other industries and made them more responsive to users, it has sought ways to digitize data and make it easier to consume. I recently talked to two organizations with different approaches to sharing data: the SMART platform and the Apigee corporation. Both focus on programming APIs and thus converge on a similar vision off health care’s future. But they respond to that vision in their own ways. Differences include…
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Medical Informatics: Apps, not data warehouses, are wave of future
Clinical Innovation + Technology, April 8, 2013 — Laura Pedulli
Beware of the perils of data warehouses, Jon D’Amore, MS, founder of Clinfometrics advised an audience at the Medical Informatics World Conference on April 8.
Providers are still a long way off from meeting Stage 2 Meaningful Use (MU) that requires the achievement of advanced clinical processes and better population health management through EHR information capture and exchange, said co-speaker Dean Sittig, PhD, professor…
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