FHIR Technologies for Connecting Mobile Apps to Healthcare Systems

Open to MIT students in the MIT UROP program

InfoSAGE (http://www.infosagehealth.org), short for 'Information Sharing Across Generations,' is an innovative web and mobile application created to help families coordinate the care of older adults. The program was created by researchers at the Division of Clinical Informatics (http://www.hmfpinformatics.org) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. InfoSAGE allows an older adult, or their proxy, to create a private social network to help coordinate their care. Functions of InfoSAGE include the ability to manage an outpatient medication list, create a task list, and search a list of selected web information resources. We are interested in expanding the InfoSAGE functionality by allowing users to electronically import a medication list after being discharged from the hospital.

We plan to expand the InfoSAGE mobile app to connect to electronic medical record systems via FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) to import medications with proper login-authorized access by the patient. FHIR (https://www.hl7.org/fhir/) is an international standard that is enabling health data interchange across electronic systems. Future work will involved expanding InfoSAGE to other electronic biometric devices.  We are looking for a summer intern to work on this project. For more information, contact Dr. Yuri Quintana at yquintan@bidmc.harvard.edu

The Division of Clinical Informatics (http://www.hmfpinformatics.org) is one of the oldest and most prestigious academic research group focused on the effective use of information and communication technologies in patient care and healthcare delivery.  Founded over 50 years ago by Drs. Howard Bleich and Warner Slack, DCI was among the first academic divisions in the world to concentrate on the use of computers for patient care, teaching, and medical research. The goals of DCI have been to improve the quality and reduce the cost of medical care, to enhance the quality of medical education, to enhance the relationship between doctor and patient, and to explore innovative approaches to research through computing.

For more information, contact Dr. Yuri Quintana at yquintan@bidmc.harvard.edu