Meducation takes SMART app crown

Jeff Byers | | Health Exec | Precision Medicine
Polyglot Systems' Meducation SMART app has been named the winner of the Substitutable Medical Applications, Reusable Technologies (SMART) Platform Apps Challenge, issued by researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School.

The SMART Platform Apps Challenge called for developers to create web applications that would interface with an EMR or personal health record (PHR) and demonstrate value to patients, physicians or public health researchers. A SMART architecture and common programming interface were created and made publicly available to entrants, Children’s Hospital Boston stated.

Polyglot's Meducation SMART app provides multilingual, patient-friendly instructions for medications listed in a physician's EMR or a patient's PHR. The app, which won the challenge's $5,000 first prize, uses the SMART programming interface to obtain the medication list and then links to a drug information database, which facilitates simplified medication instructions in a dozen languages.

The SMART Platform Apps Challenge was part of challenge.gov, administered by the U.S. General Services Administration. All apps submitted in the SMART Platform Apps Challenge can be viewed here. A SMART "App Store" will launch in 2012, Boston Children's Hospital stated.

Jeff Byers

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