15 SMART Apps for Health Submitted

We’re happy to announce that the SMART Apps for Health Challenge resulted in 15 apps being submitted.  These apps range from PriorityContact(TM), an app that manages contact with patients, to rxClinicalTrials, which helps to identify trials that a patient might be eligible for through ClinicalTrials.gov.  Our entrants each got their app working in the SMART Reference EMR in under 3 months, demonstrating the power of lowering the barriers to developer engagement in health IT.  The judging period is now underway, and we’ll announce the winner of the $5,000 on June 22nd. Stay tuned!

June 3 webinar call in details

Time: 12:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00)
Meeting Number: 714 847 971
Meeting Password: (This meeting does not require a password.)

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3. If a password is required, enter the meeting password: (This meeting does not require a password.)
4. Click “Join”.

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Indivo Users Webinar, June 3rd, 2011

The development team for Indivo X, the SMART-enabled, open source personally controlled health record platform, is going to conduct a webinar on June 3rd. 2011. Topics will include: the current state of the platform and API; ongoing projects in the Indivo X ecosystem, including the use of Indivo X in a patient portal and in an online social network; a proposed roadmap for upcoming features and enhancements, such as plans to support the Direct Project.

Please register here if you plan to join us on June 3rd. We’ll send you an invitation with instructions to join the webinar shortly before the event. An in person meeting will be planned for sometime thereafter. Please go to www.indivohealth.org to learn more about Indivo X.

Indivo Users Webinar Agenda

Friday, June 3, 2011

12Noon Welcome and Intro

12:15pm Indivo X

12:25pm Indivo X Ecosystem

1:05pm Indivo X Roadmap

  • Pluggable Schemas
  • Enhanced Database Support
  • Event Encapsulation
  • www.SMARTPlatforms.org API Support
  • Direct Implementation

1:40pm Q&A

2:00pm Adjourn

Indivo X at OSCON 2011

Indivo X is the SMART-enabled, open source personally controlled health record platform. Daniel Haas, the platform’s lead architect, will be delivering a talk on the architecture of and security implications of Indivo X, its place in the open source community, its prospects for future development, and its relationship to SMART Platforms. Details about his talk can be found here: http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/public/schedule/detail/19713.

You can learn more about Indivo X at http://indivohealth.org

SMART Health App $5000 Challenge

The SMART $5K Apps Challenge is now closed to entries, but you can still learn about it at our Challenge.gov page!

Our panel of judges are currently reviewing the entries, and winners will be announced on June 22nd.

SMART wishes to thank our eminent panel of judges:

Susannah Fox
Director of Health Research at the Pew Internet & American Life Project

Regina Herzlinger
Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

David Kibbe
Director, Center for Health Information Technology, American Academy of Family Physicians
The Kibbe Group LLC

Ben Shneiderman
Professor of Computer Science at the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland, College Park

Doug Solomon
Chief Technology Officer at IDEO

Edward Tufte
Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Statistics, and Computer Science at Yale University

Jim Walker
Chief Health Information Officer, Geisinger Health Systems


April 27th Webinar: How to Become a SMART Container

SMART Webinar April 27

Learn how your health IT system can harness the power of the developer community.

The SMART (Substitutable Medical Apps, Reusable Technologies) project is working to lower the barriers for external developers to create innovative healthcare apps. A SMART-enabled health IT system will be positioned to take advantage of these innovations and make them available to its users.

Attend our webinar and learn how your health IT system can become SMART.
April 27, 2011 2:00 – 3:00 P.M. Eastern

http://hms.webex.com/hms/j.php?ED=140265297&UID=0&PW=NY2QzZGM4OTBk&RT=Mi
MxMQ%3D%3D Meeting Number: 716 280 736 Meeting Password: SHARP

To join the audio conference only:
Call-in toll-free number (US/Canada): 1-866-699-3239
Call-in toll number (US/Canada): 1-408-792-6300
Access code: 716 280 736

Open Source in Good Health and Vice Versa

ComputerworldUK, April 5, 2011 — Glyn Moody
Last week I wrote about the UK government’s “new” IT strategy, which is designed in part to avoid some of the costly mistakes of the past. And as far as the latter go, there aren’t many bigger or costlier than the NHS National Programme for Information Technology (NpfIT)…
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Smart Apps for Health Challenge – Nudging You to Participate

New Media Medicine (MIT Media Lab), March 29, 2011
We want to spread the word about the Smart Apps for Health Challenge and encourage you to participate. The SMART (Subsitutible Medical Apps, reusable technologies) platform is a project funded by The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology through the Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) program. Its goal is to provide a common API for developing applications across multiple health information technology platforms…
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SMART challenge and P4: open source projects look toward the broader use of health records

O’Reilly Radar, March 23, 2011 — Andy Oram
In a country where doctors are still struggling to transfer basic patient information (such as continuity of care records) from one clinic to another, it may seem premature to think about seamless data exchange between a patient and multiple care organizations to support such things as real-time interventions in patient behavior and better clinical decision support. But this is precisely what medicine will need for the next breakthrough in making patients better and reducing costs. And many of the building blocks have recently fallen into place…
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