Category: Press

Healthcare Informatics Magazine, March 20, 2012 — Jennifer Prestigiacomo
After attending a presentation at the HIMSS12 eCollaboration Forum, “Platform Innovation in an ‘Open’ Environment,” I got really excited for the upcoming SMART open app challenge. For those who are unfamiliar with the SMART Health App Challenge, it was started by a research team at Children’s Hospital of Boston and Harvard Medical School that launched a prize to encourage innovative app developers to build open platform apps that benefit patients and providers. The $5,000 prize was funded from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT….
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Government Technology, March 14, 2011 — Sarah Rich
Web app contests like NYC BigApps continue fostering new ways to access public data — and these challenges are now making their way into the medical field. But before these medical apps get too far along, they need the proper platform and interface. That’s where the Substitutable Medical Applications, reusable technologies (SMART) platform comes in. In April 2010, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology awarded $15 million to researchers at the Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School to design SMART…
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Read Mr. Chopra’s White House blog here. He states, “This development will dramatically expand the market for health IT by offering applications that can meet any niche and any need – from individual consumers to small practices to large organizations—thereby making the transformative power of health IT felt more fully and broadly.”

Deloitte Review, 2011 — Vikram Mahidhar
The fast-moving frontier of new technologies and business models is challenging traditional models of innovation. Historically, larger companies, universities or government agencies with deep pockets have often brought forth the ideas that shape business and society. More recently, though, the advent of new digital infrastructures such as cloud computing, mobile and online social networks is enabling small groups of individuals with small investments to create big impact…
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