This new approach to a health information infrastructure was the focus of a June 2009 working group meeting at the Harvard Medical School Center for Biomedical Informatics and an October 2009 HIT meeting which brought together more than 100 key stakeholders across academia, government and industry in an exploration of innovative ways to transform the national health IT system.

The SMArt platform will provide a common interface to the "App Store" for the Indivo open source personally controlled health record platform developed by the CHIP team more than a decade ago, as well as open source platforms created by other subcontractors on the ONC grant: Partners HealthCare System's i2b2 analytic platform and the Regenstrief Institute's CareWeb EHR.

Organizations across the health ecosystem will partner with the research team on efforts to translate their solutions into real-world practice.

Source: Children's Hospital Boston