SMART Challenge and P4: Open Source Projects Look Toward the Broader Use of Health Records

Two recent open source developments have noticed these opportunities and hope to create new ones from them. One is the SMART Apps for Health contest at Challenge.gov, based on theSMART Platform that is one of the darlings of Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra and other advocates for health care innovation. The other development is P4, the brainchild of a physician named Adrian Gropper who has recognized the importance of electronic records and made the leap into technology.