Comments on: Can RWJF’s Common Platform Gain Traction? http://chilmarkresearch.com/2009/12/08/rwjfs-common-platform-gain-traction-healthcare-apps/ Providing perspective on key IT trends in the healthcare sector Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:01:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Patti Brennan http://chilmarkresearch.com/2009/12/08/rwjfs-common-platform-gain-traction-healthcare-apps/#comment-4144 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:26:22 +0000 http://chilmarkresearch.com/?p=2178#comment-4144 I’m happy to add my thanks to Steve’s for John’s analysis and to make a few additional points regarding Project HealthDesign and it’s scope of work . The first round of Project HealthDesign, supported by the RWJF with additional support from the California HealthCAre Foundation, supported three key, interrelated activities: nine grantee teams who each developed a novel personal health application, an ethics/legal consultancy service that helped grantees identify and explore (and sometimes resolve!) the novel ethical and legal issues raised by innovation in personal health record space, and the development and deployment of the “Common Platform” — a web- based resource developed first to be responsive to the common data management needs of our grantees and later distributed widely under the LGPL open source license. Our recent release of access to a developer’s environment provides a new opportunity for those interested in the technical side of PHR’s to ‘kick the tires’ and program against the common platform, to see how its services might be of use. We encourage all to remember that this is a developmental/test environment. Sujansky and Associates are available to answer brief questions about how the system works; we encourage those who want to test out the system to consult the documentation available at http://www.projecthealthdesign.org/common_platform/cp_overview — Please let us know about your experiences!

]]> By: Steve Downs http://chilmarkresearch.com/2009/12/08/rwjfs-common-platform-gain-traction-healthcare-apps/#comment-4136 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:01:33 +0000 http://chilmarkresearch.com/?p=2178#comment-4136 John,

Thanks for the review of the CDE that came out of Project HealthDesign and I agree with your assessment – it’s not likely to gain much traction in the commercial world. Nor is it intended to. We commissioned the development of the platform to aid with the prototyping of personal health applications (see http://www.projecthealthdesign.org/overview-phr/projects) that our grantees were doing. It was never intended to compete with HealthVault or Google Health – in fact an explicit goal of Project HealthDesign was to stimulate the marketplace to develop PHR services along the platform/apps model that you know so well. However, because of our commitment to making all of the Project HealthDesign work available under open source, Creative Commons or public domain arrangements, we have released it and are supporting it (through early 2011) for those who wish to experiment with it. The niches you mentioned are great suggestions — thanks for your thoughts.

A complete summary of Project HealthDesign products is available at http://www.projecthealthdesign.org/products_open.

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