Friday, July 22, 2016

mHealth App Issues aim EHR Approach, Mood Measurement

mHealth app issues are entire rage these days, with separate contests seeking tools to approach health data in an EHR and stages that deal mood disorders.


The officials have disclosed their 1st-round winners in 2 challenges finding apps that contributors and sufferers can utilize to access and share health data. Meanwhile, 5 semifinalists have been chosen in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s challenge, which finds ResearchKit-deployed mHealth levels that can assist customers and contributors measure moods.


ONC has selected 4 participants in the Consumer Health Data Aggregator Challenge and 4 people in the Provider User Experience Challenge. All 8 Phase I winners will gain $15,000, and they will now further establish their apps for experimenting by the month of November 7.


“It is amazing to analyze the level of innovation that is taking place in health Information Technology today,” Vindell Washington, MD, the ONC’s principal deputy national coordinator, claimed in declaring the Phase 1 winners on the day of July 18 in the city of Washington D.C. “The apps that these challenges will generate have the possibility to spur real-world betterments for people and clinicians throughout the health network.”


Declared by ONC chief Karen DeSalvo on the day of March 1 at the Health Information and Management Systems Society’s yearly conference an exhibition in the city of Las Vegas, the 2 contests challenge mHealth innovators to utilize the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard and start application programming interfaces (APIs) to make an application that enables clients and contributors to access and share information in an EHR.


In the time of consumer challenge, participants were ordered to make a means by which clients could conveniently and electronically approach their information from several healthcare contributors.


The consumer challenge Phase 1 winners are Green Circle Health, HealthCentrix, Medyear and MetroStar Systems. The contributor challenge Phase I winners are the PHRASE Health, Herald Health, WellSheet and a collaboration including the Duke Health System, the Intermountain Healthcare, and the University of Utah Health Care.


While the 1st phase involved designing the app, the 2nd phase will concentrate on testing that app, and will be certainly open to all participants regardless of either they were termed Phase I winners. A grand prize, 2nd place prize and “Ultimate Connector” prize will be granted in every challenge.


The RJWF challenge started its $500,000 competition in the month of April, inquiring the participants to utilize Apple’s clinical research platform to make apps that can, generally, measure moods. Contestants were order to make an mHealth platform that would observe social, economic and other elements, involving weather, diet and exercise.


The semifinalists are the Mood Circle, BiAffect, Aware Study, MoodSync and Mood Toolkit. 2 finalists will be declared in the month of October following a Virtual Accelerator to test application design, and a winner will be chosen in the month of May 2017 after the prototypes have been observed.


 

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