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SMART Health Information Exchanges

The SMART team is happy to announce that it’s working with Mirth Corporation, a global leader in commercial open source healthcare information technology, to SMART-enable the HealthBridge and Redwood MedNet Health Information Exchanges. The SMART API and the growing selection of SMART applications offer a great way to enhance the utility of the health data shared within these two networks. Stay tuned to smarthealthit.org for updates on this and other exciting projects.

About Mirth Corporation

Mirth is a global leader in commercial open source products and services powering healthcare interoperability and community-based care management. Mirth delivers information technology consulting, and hosts high availability secure applications. Mirth solutions are used daily by thousands of health professionals and institutions worldwide to streamline care management processes and to securely exchange health information across enterprises, communities and broad geographies. For more information visit http://www.mirthcorp.com.

OpenMRS releases SMART Module

SMART and OpenMRS are proud to announce the initial release of a SMART module for OpenMRS.

This module expands the reach of the SMART API by allowing apps to run (unmodified!) on the open-source Open Medical Record System. It also provides a lightweight interface for developers who want to extend the functionality of OpenMRS.

Work on this module began as a Google Summer of Code project and continued through the fall with support from the OpenMRS team.

The initial release provides developers access to the SMART Connect API in OpenMRS. SMART REST API support is planned for a future release.

SMART @ the ONC Annual Meeting

SMART will be presenting at the ONC Annaul Meeting on November 17th.

Josh Mandel, lead architect for the SMART team, will be presenting at this year’s ONC Annual Meeting on November 17th. The focus of his presentation will be on SMART’s efforts to engage the developer community in support of the platform. You can get a front row seat to by joining the webcast.

What Killed Google Health?

Ken Mandl interviewed by WBUR’s Carey Goldberg for the Common Health Blog. He reflects on the demise of Google Health, lessons learned for the health system and for personal health records.
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Challenge Winners Applaud SMART

“Polyglot Systems has developed a number of products that can improve health outcomes and decrease costs.  Despite these benefits, achieving widespread adoption is extremely difficult if the products cause any interruption in provider workflow.  This makes EMR/EHR integration essential.  The SMART Platform offers Polyglot a way to quickly and affordably integrate its products across multiple EMR and EHR systems.  By doing so, the SMART Platform lets Polyglot and other innovators deploy their solutions much more broadly and quickly than would otherwise be the case.”

Meducation SMART app could be a lifesaver

SmartPlanet, June 28, 2011 — Stacy Lipson
Now more than ever, iPhone app developers are offering iPhone applications that will improve patient safety. Polyglot Systems created the Meducation SMART app, which calculates medication lists and offers patients the ability to print and view medication instructions for prescription medications in a dozen languages…
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SMART to be presented at i2b2 user’s meeting on June 29

SMART and i2b2 investigator Shawn Murphy will be presenting SMART at the June 29th i2b2 Academic User’s Group meeting!

SMART Health Apps: Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical Announce Contest Winners

BostInno, June 23, 2011 — Cheryl Morris
New opportunities for innovations in the health industry are everywhere, thanks in part to more sophisticated smartphones like the iPhone and Android devices. In early March we highlighted a mobile health app contest being put on by Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School. Winners were announced earlier this week, working to help welcome a new wave of apps to hospitals, patients and physicians…
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SMART App Challenge Winner Announced

On June 16th and 17th, 2011, our judges convened and deliberated to score the apps for the SMART Apps for Health $5,000 Challenge, which opened back in March.

Meducation is the winner.
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The Meducation SMART app, created by Polyglot Systems, Inc. – a health IT company with a focus on improving care and access for underserved patient populations – provides multilingual, patient-friendly instructions for medications listed in a physician’s electronic medical record or the personally controlled health record of a patient. The app uses the SMART programming interface to obtain the medication list and then links out to a drug information database, which facilitates the generation of simplified medication instructions for patients, available in a dozen languages.

In addition to the winner, several selected as honorable mentions:

  • Clinical Research facilitates interoperability between an EMR system and a clinical electronic data capture system
  • MyNote provides an intuitive, interactive timeline of patient history with disease-specific schemes, and allows patients to annotate the timeline
  • Priority Contact enhances the work process of a clinician by managing contact with patients after they have left the clinic and new information relevant to their treatment plan has been obtained
  • DxSocial matches patients with doctors based on their experience treating patients similar to them matches patients with doctors based on their experience treating patients similar to them
  • Medications Risk Maps for SMArt helps identify and compare medication side effects and risk of adverse events across drugs
  • rxInfo is a suite of SMART apps to help identify patients for clinical trials, provide drug interaction information, FDA Label information about marketed drugs, and a listing of nearby federally funded health centers

You can view all the submitted apps at http://smartapps.challenge.gov/submissions.

Current-stage EMRs decide if, when, and how you will view the data trapped in their systems. The SMART Platform Apps Challenge was designed to demonstrate what can happen when electronic health information becomes liberated and can be readily consumed by computer applications. iPhone and Android app developers have been very successful because the address book and GPS data in those platforms is clearly and consistently presented by the platform. Our goal is to present health data in as useful and consistent format. Based on the submissions we received, we think we have demonstrated that this approach can be successful.

That we had so many excellent applicants reflects the hunger and need felt in the community to deliver innovative healthcare applications directly to doctors and patients without having to learn the details of a large, monolithic EMR

Congratulations to our winner and honorable mentions!

SMART app receives clinician praise

The SMART team is working on creating a blood pressure centiles SMART app for initial deployment at Children’s Hospital, Boston.  There aren’t standard cutoffs for normal pediatric blood pressures.  For kids, the normal blood pressure depends upon height and gender.  Unfortunately, looking up these normal blood pressures is pretty time consuming.  Thus, we’re working with a great, transdisciplinary group of docs at Children’s to create an app that will do the calculating for them and give them more time with their patients.  One of those docs is cardiologist Justin Zachariah, M.D., M.P.H.  He said, “What you have already created is definitely a quantum leap forward compared to where we are now.”  Through SMART, we’ll be able to make this app available to other SMART-enabled systems.