Medgadget editor Gene Ostrovsky and guest blogger Mike Moore report on the last day of TEDMED, which featured Zak Kohane talking about SMART and i2b2.
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Medgadget editor Gene Ostrovsky and guest blogger Mike Moore report on the last day of TEDMED, which featured Zak Kohane talking about SMART and i2b2.
To storyWilliam Hersh writes, “A recent blog posting calls for a ‘universal EMR’ for the entire healthcare system. The author provides an example and correctly laments how lack of access to the complete data about a patient impedes optimal clinical care. I would add that quality improvement, clinical research, and public health are impeded by this situation as well…”
Read moreComing soon in interactive Journal of Medical Research (i-JMR):
“Integrating the SMART Medical Applications Platform, the i2b2 Research Data Repository, and the Patient Summarization Project” (doi:10.2196/ijmr.2454).
“We need apps to solve specific problems, not warehouses to store data,” said Jon D’Amore, founder of Clinfometrics, at the Medical Informatics World Conference on April 8.
Read moreOn The Health Care Blog, O’Reilly Media’s Andy Oram contrasts the data-sharing approaches
of SMART and Apigee, highlighting the “special value of APIs in health settings.”
Enjoy this interactive transcript of Josh Mandel’s popular webinar about SMART’s open-source tools, synchronized to the video recording.
Video pageA time-tested tool for monitoring children’s health is getting a redesign for the digital age in our partnership with design firm Fjord.
GigaOM NewsArticle in Vector, the science and clinical innovation blog from Boston Children’s Hospital, outlines the medical importance of SMART’s Blood Pressure Centiles app.
Read articleThe SMART Platform lets Polyglot and other innovators deploy their solutions much more broadly and quickly than would otherwise be the case.
Imagine all the energy we could harness if our most talented engineers wrote modular EHRs instead of “Angry Birds.”
What you have already created [with the Blood Pressure Centiles app] is definitely a quantum leap forward compared to where we are now.
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