Next Tuesday and Wednesday, July 24-25, the i2b2 Academic Users’ Group will host its second annual conference at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center in Boston. Wednesday’s 9:30-10:00 a.m. segment will be a demonstration of the patient-centered view and app bundle developed using the SMART i2b2 cell. The full agenda of the conference, which will be preceded by an NLP workshop, can be found on the i2b2 website.
The SMART team is pleased to announce a new partnership that will break down barriers between developers, designers, and doctors. Sermo, the largest online physician community in the United States, will connect us with their network of over 130,000 members for feedback on SMART apps as they are created.
“We are excited to be working with the SMART project,” said Jon Michaeli, VP, Marketing and Membership. “It’s no secret there are major obstacles associated with the implementation and widespread adoption of an efficient IT infrastructure in the US healthcare system today. Physicians in the Sermo community are constantly exchanging war stories, from how EMR incompatibilities cripple their work streams to how they compromise rather than improve patient care. This project presents a great opportunity for them to share their opinions with leading researchers and technologists who are well positioned to make a difference.”
An example of the kind of insights that Sermo has gathered from its members is the Physician Sentiment Index™ (PSI), conducted annually since 2010 along with athenahealth, a cloud-based physician software and billing firm. The 2012 PSI was just released in June.
iHealthBeat, July 12, 2012 — Andy Oram
On Wednesday, Health 2.0 and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT launched a contest — called the SMART-Indivo App Challenge — inviting developers to create consumer-focused health applications, Healthcare IT News reports. SMART — which stands for Substitutable Medical Apps, Reusable Technologies — is one of four Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects funded by ONC. Indivo is a personal health record platform…
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Healthcare IT News, July 12, 2012 — Erin McCann
SAN FRANCISCO – On Wednesday, officials at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and Health 2.0 announced the launch of a collaborative venture that aims to spur health information technology innovation among software developers. The Investing in Innovation (i2) Initiative competition seeks to foster the use of technology to drive improved health outcomes, officials say, driving patient participation in their own health and wellness data…
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The SMART-Indivo App Challenge is now Live!
This contest is a call to developers to build an Indivo app that provides value to patients using data delivered through the SMART API and Indivo-specific extensions. The top 3 submissions will win cash prizes, with the top one taking home $10,000 and the opportunity to exhibit at an upcoming conference.
We look forward to seeing what innovative ideas are enabled by Indivo and its integration with SMART, so check out the contest details, read the Indivo Documentation, visit the Indivo Sandbox, and start hacking!
HANDI–the Healthcare App Network for Development and Innovation–will host a meeting on the SMART platform and OpenEHR on Wednesday, July 11.
This meeting will include expert presentation of the two technologies and an opportunity to explore their further use in the UK and/or possible collaboration at a global level.
Registration is required, and remote seats are still available.
Among the attendees of last week’s Indivo conference was Andy Oram, who writes regularly about the societal effects of Internet policy and technical innovation. His piece in the O’Reilly Radar summarizes Monday’s talks and explains the significance of the “historical” SMART-enabled Indivo v2 release. It also mentions Tuesday’s hackathon, shown below, where developers tried their hands at app creation and integration.
O’Reilly Radar, June 21, 2012 — Andy Oram
While thousands of health care professionals were flocking to the BIO International Convention this week, I spent Monday in a small library at the Harvard Medical School listening to a discussion of the Indivo patient health record and related open source projects with about 80 intensely committed followers. Lead Indivo architect Daniel Haas, whom I interviewed a year ago, succeeded in getting the historical 2.0 release of Indivo out on the day of the conference. This article explains the significance of the release in the health care field and the promise of the work being done at Harvard Medical School and its collaborators…
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A key topic at this year’s Indivo Users’ Conference was the release of version 2.0, which provides “deep integration with the SMART data models and API.” In other words, the Indivo personal health platform is now a full-fledged SMART container. Visit the Indivo site to learn more about
Conference presentations included a keynote from Farzad Mostashari, National Coordinator of HIT, ONC; Indivo–SMART integration by Daniel Haas, Indivo Lead Architect; the SMART API by Nikolai Schwertner, Senior SMART Developer; Indivo–i2b2 integration by Shawn Murphy, Partners HealthCare; Indivo iOS framework by Pascal Pfiffner, Children’s Hospital Informatics Program; and lightning talks from the MIT Media Lab, Novartis, Childhood Arthritis & Rheumatology Research Alliance, and MuleSoft.
Ken Mandl also premiered the new Indivo Film, an animated “story of what’s to come” in Health IT, voiced by Amy Madigan.
InformationWeek Healthcare , June 19, 2012 — Nicole Lewis
Electronic health records suffer from a lack of innovation that thwarts physicians’ attempts to advance healthcare processes and workflow. Unlike word-processing programs, search engines, social networks, and mobile phones and apps, EHRs are stuck in the pre-Internet world where EHR vendors not only control the data, but also resist improvements to functionality while reaping huge financial rewards, concludes a…
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