SMART Platforms: Building The App Store for Biosurveillance

Authors

  • Kenneth D. Mandl Boston Children's Hospital; Harvard Medical School

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v5i1.4468

Abstract

Health care information is a fundamental source of data for biosurveillance, configuring electronic health records to report relevant data to health departments is technically challenging, labor intensive, and often requires custom solutions for each installation. Public health agencies wishing to deliver alerts to clinicians also must engage in an endless array of one-off systems integrations. SMART provides a common platform supporting an "app store for biosurveillance" as an approach to enabling one stop shopping for public health departments to create an app once, and distribute it everywhere.

Author Biography

Kenneth D. Mandl, Boston Children's Hospital; Harvard Medical School

Dr. Kenneth Mandl is Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and directs the Intelligent Health Laboratory in the Children's Hospital Informatics Program. Mandl has pioneered and published extensively in personal health records and biosurveillance. Under a major a HHS initiative, he co-leads the SMART Platforms project, which seeks to create an "app store" for health. He co-directs a CDC Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics defining the role of social networks in public health.

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Published

2013-03-23

How to Cite

Mandl, K. D. (2013). SMART Platforms: Building The App Store for Biosurveillance. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v5i1.4468

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2013)

Section

Oral Presentations: Electronic Health Records

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