SHARPC Team Receives Honorable Mention in Challenge.gov Competition

Congratulations to the SHARPC team which partnered members from the University of Washington, General UI, and the Department of General Affairs. Among 15 final submissions, the team recently received an honorable mention in The SMART Platform Apps Challenge recently sponsored and funded by The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology through the Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) program.  As an honorable mention recipient, the team’s app will be showcased in the SMART Apps Gallery on the Challenge.gov website.

This multidisciplinary team developed and submitted Priority Contact^TM  a smartphone application that is designed to improve direct communication between providers and patients to discuss, interpret, and manage treatment plans after new test results are received.  

Please see the award announcement here or you may go directly to the link for the Priority Contact^TM  submission. 

SMART Apps for Health $5,000 Challenge

[From another SHARP - SMART headquartered at Harvard]
Make your contribution to the health of the nation by creating an innovative health app!

SMART (www.smartplatforms.org) is one of four Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) funded by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. SMART was conceived to address the real-world need for responsiveness and innovation in health information technology by empowering existing electronic medical records (EHRs) and personally-controlled health records (PCHRs) to accept substitutable apps.

Currently, innovation in health informatics is limited by disparate vendor APIs and ambiguous data standards. Deploying an application against multiple vendor systems requires massive customization efforts that don¹t scale. SMART provides a common API to access patient records, fueling apps with rich, unambiguous data. This will open up the market of health IT to a new cadre of developers who can write a SMART app once and deploy it inside multiple EMRs and PCHRs.

Our objective is to lower the barriers to creating apps for health, so that you, the developer, can focus on your great ideas!

If you're interested in learning more, supporting us, and participating, go to http://challenge.gov/challenges/134