Indivo X personal health record: an interview with Daniel Haas of Children's Hospital

by Andy Oram | @praxagora | +Andy Oram | Comment | 7 June 2011

I recently interviewed Daniel Haas from the Intelligent Health Lab (IHL) of the Children's Hospital Informatics Program (CHIP), within the Children's Hospital Boston, about Indivo, a project he will speak about at the O'Reilly Open Source convention.

Indivo is an open-source Personal Health Record (PHR) system. It is in use at Children's Hospital as well as several other institutions, it supports a wide range of applications through a RESTful interface, and it was the architectural and conceptual inspiration for a variety of systems in the Personally Controlled Health Record space, including Microsoft HealthVault.

The first video (below) describes how a PHR gives patients more control over data, where Indivo came from, and the purpose of releasing Indivo under the GPL.

The second video describes the difference between Indivo and open source EHRs such as VistA, the goal of portability, the RESTful interface of the new Indivo X project, and the SMART Platform for standard health data exchange.

The third video touches on application development for Indivo, the goal of substitutable apps created by a wide range of developers, the Indivo users meeting (held before the release of this video), and the development of a community to maintain and develop Indivo.

The final video describes some of Indivo's partners and derivative products, and privacy issues in relation to health records.

We hope you can come to OSCON and catch Daniel there.

Health IT at OSCON 2011 — The conjunction of open source and open data with health technology promises to improve creaking infrastructure and give greater control and engagement for patients. These topics will be explored in the healthcare track at OSCON (July 25-29 in Portland, Ore.)

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