A five-year-old project based at Boston Children’s Hospital is seeking to develop an iTunes-like platform for patients to select and download clinical apps, with the ultimate goal of encouraging app development and increasing patient engagement through useful, targeted apps.
The Substitutable Medical Apps & Reusable Technology project received its original funding from the ONC as part of the ONC’s efforts to fund projects that remove barriers to health IT adoption.
This week, the project took a step forward with the announcement of an advisory committee to guide the SMART project’s technical and business strategies.
“The SMART approach is a breath of fresh air to the world of healthcare IT, which has been historically slow to innovate,” Clayton Christensen, disruptive innovation expert, business professor at Harvard Business School in Boston and one of the members of the SMART advisory committee, said in the news release. “The time is right to ignite the effort and accelerate the creation of a robust market for app developers that will benefit the healthcare system and the patients it serves.”
More Articles on Healthcare Apps:
Dignity Health Announces Winner of Patient Education App Challenge
5 Recent Health IT Vendor Contracts
5 Statistics on mHealth Usage
