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…
READ MORE >
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…
READ MORE >
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…
READ MORE >
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…
READ MORE >
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…
READ MORE >
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.
You must be logged in to post a comment.