Polyglot's Meducation App Wins SMART Contest

A smartphone application that provides multilingual instructions for medications listed on a patient’s electronic medical record or personal health record has been named the winner of the SMART Platform Apps Challenge.

Fifteen applications were submitted to the contest, launched in March by researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School. Designed to inspire innovation in health innovation technology, the SMART (Substitutable Medical Applications, Reusable Technologies) Platform Apps Challenge asked developers to create a web application that could interface with an EMR or personally controlled health record and demonstrate value to patients, physicians and public health researchers...