Boston hospitals issue 'SMArt' app challenge
Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School in Boston have launched the SMArt (Substitutable Medical Applications, reusable technologies) platform architecture and a $5,000 competition challenging developers to create web applications for patients, physicians or for public health.
The SMArt architecture is a health IT platform model that facilitates development of medical applications that are scalable and substitutable, and aims to transform the way health IT supports healthcare, according to the hospitals.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) awarded $15 million to the project in April 2010 through the Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) program. The SMArt project will help support an ecosystem of applications ranging from medication managers for patients at home to e-prescribing applications and decision support for physicians in the office, the organizations stated.
Click here for more about the SMArt project or the health app challenge.
The SMArt architecture is a health IT platform model that facilitates development of medical applications that are scalable and substitutable, and aims to transform the way health IT supports healthcare, according to the hospitals.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) awarded $15 million to the project in April 2010 through the Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) program. The SMArt project will help support an ecosystem of applications ranging from medication managers for patients at home to e-prescribing applications and decision support for physicians in the office, the organizations stated.
Click here for more about the SMArt project or the health app challenge.