As an informatics researcher, one of the key challenges I face is scalability. We often design and evaluate an innovative new tool at a single hospital, show that it works, and write a paper. But the road to widespread use is challenging, as we then have to re-engineer it over and over again for every EHR—if they even have a platform we can develop on. SMART is the solution. It lets us write an app once and run it in anywhere that SMART is supported. This is exactly what we need!

I was amazed at the clarity and simplicity of the cholesterol lab print out. The graphical description gets the message across to patients in a way that is better than I could even describe it in person. I would love to be able to use this for my patients.

What you have already created [with the Blood Pressure Centiles app] is definitely a quantum leap forward compared to where we are now.

The 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.”