BOSTON, June 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ —
Corporations, academics and private citizens responded to a
national developer challenge issued this spring by researchers at
Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School designed to
inspire innovation in health information technology (IT) and the
way in which health IT supports health care. Fifteen applications
were submitted to the “SMART” Platform Apps Challenge in the less
than three months since its launch, and an expert judging panel of
industry leaders has selected the Meducation SMART app as
the winner of the $5,000 prize. Six teams received honorable
mention.
Launched in March and posted to Challenge.gov, the
SMART
(Substitutable Medical Applications, Reusable Technologies)
Platform Apps Challenge tasked developers with creating web
applications that would interface with an electronic medical record
(EMR) or personally controlled health record (PCHR) 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.
The Meducation SMART app, designed by Polyglot Systems, Inc.
– a health IT company with a focus on improving care and
access for underserved patient populations – provides
multilingual, patient-friendly instructions for medications listed
in a physician’s electronic medical record or the personally
controlled health record of a patient. The app uses the SMART
programming interface to obtain the medication list and then links
out to a drug information database, which facilitates the
generation of simplified medication instructions for patients,
available in a dozen languages.
“This is a production quality application that brings real value
to the patient and has a clean prese
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