In his piece “Growth of SMART health care apps may be slow, but inevitable,” Andy Oram sums up this week’s Harvard Health IT Meeting, aka ITdotHealth II.
Stay tuned to the SMART Platforms site over the next several weeks for complete, in-depth coverage of the conference.
Vector, September 12, 2012 — Nancy Fleisler
The Affordable Care Act, now the law of the land, mandates free blood pressure screening for children as part of their health care coverage. Yet often hypertension in children is missed, while other children get evaluated and sometimes treated for high blood pressure readings that turn out to have been transient (often induced by kids’ fear of doctors). That has cardiologists like Justin Zachariah, MD, MPH, concerned…
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On his Life as a Healthcare CIO blog, John Halamka gives a synopsis of his contribution to ITdotHealth II. He was among the panelists speaking Monday on “Apps and APIs: Innovating Around Vendor and Homegrown EHRs.” His summary addresses the issue from federal, state, and local perspectives.
In Suddenly it’s all about the APIs, Microsoft HealthVault’s Sean Nolan outlines six key challenges to building an API that is desirable to developers—whose adoption of it, or lack thereof, will make or break its survival in the marketplace.
Tom Krohn, an attendee to the recent Health IT Meeting at Harvard (“ITdotHealth II”), is the business lead for the Eli Lilly Clinical Open Innovation team. Leading up to the meeting, he wrote about the ways his team’s approach aligns with SMART.
The Hospitalist, September, 2012 — Win Whitcomb
In “The Lean Startup,” author Eric Ries notes that in its early stages, his gaming company would routinely issue new versions of their software application several times each day. Continuous deployment—the process Ries’ company used—leveraged such Lean principles as reduced batch size and continuous learning based on end-user feedback to achieve rapid improvements in their product…
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Eli Lilly Clinical Open Innovation, September 4, 2012 — Tom Krohn
In the March 2009 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, Drs. Kenneth Mandl and Isaac Kohane of Harvard Medical School introduced the idea of a health information technology platform that works more like the iPhone than a traditional system. Entitled “No Small Change for the Health Information Economy,” the paper suggests a simplified platform approach where innovation is spurred through substitutable components…
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Next Monday-Wednesday, August 27-30, the W3C will host a “Summer School” at the MIT CSAIL Stata Center for those interested in learning about the Semantic Web as applied to Health Care and Life Sciences.
Visit the wiki of the event, also known as the HCLS Hackathon, or download the flyer (PDF).
Also be sure to register.
As Health 2.0 News recently reminded the community, the SMART-Indivo App Challenge is underway.
On August 7, a webinar provided an in-depth review of the challenge and allowed interested participants to ask questions to the challenge hosts. Slides from the webinar are available on the challenge website and hosted on Slideshare.
Advance registration for the challenge is recommended. Final submissions are due on September 28, 2012. The first place team will be awarded with $10,000. The second and third place teams will receive awards of $2,000 and $1,000, respectively.
Introducing another partner in our mission to bridge the doctor-developer-designer divide: Fjord. This digital service design consultancy’s New York office will be helping the SMART team create an open-source, web-based, interactive pediatric growth chart application. Embracing a design-led approach to clinical end-user needs, this collaboration aims to develop a new way to present pediatric growth charts so they can be easily read, understood, and shared among clinicians and other medical professionals, as well as used in communication with parents.
The collaboration will start with an immersive phase of interviewing pediatric and medical informatics specialists to help establish current content, context, and usage of the pediatric growth chart. This targeted usability research will surface insights and understanding of how pediatric growth charts are actually used and how they should be changed to enhance their utility for different clinical and communication purposes. The Fjord team will then create detailed designs that will be tested and refined with clinicians and parents.
After the design has been completed, the Fjord and SMART Project teams will collaborate to complete a full development, implementation, and launch of the design, resulting in an end-to-end web app experience to be introduced to, and shared with, the medical and clinical informatics community.
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