FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6 - SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8 2015
Do you have an idea to improve an EHR?
Have you struggled with how your digital health innovations will integrate with EHRs?
The BWH Open. Epic Challenge: Develop a working application during the Hackathon that integrates with the Epic electronic health record using the Open.Epic FHIR-based APIs
Description: This year, Brigham and Women’s Hospital implemented the Epic electronic health record system. With this transition, we now have an opportunity to more easily share digital health innovations with over 350 health care systems using Epic, including many other major US academic medical centers. Further, with the use of the emerging Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), the potential exists for a single digital health innovation to run on all EHRs.
To help facilitate innovation and integration, Epic created Open.Epic including support for FHIR REST-based APIs, detailed documentation, and a sandbox to test applications against a full-fledged instance of Epic with no protected health information.
In the BWH-Open.Epic Challenge, we are seeking innovative and clinically useful working applications created during the Hackathon weekend that make use of Open.Epic FHIR services. Judges will select one application to win a chance to pilot their application at BWH, a top 10 academic medical center with nearly $650 million in research funding. Epic software engineers will conduct a training workshop and provide technical support for teams throughout the Hackathon. The Microsoft Azure team will provide cloud-based development tools for teams to use during the Hackathon and will also have technical support available throughout the weekend.
What if my area of expertise is outside of healthcare and EHRs?
- Clinicians spanning all specialties and degrees of training with a priority on those at the frontlines of patient care today will help identify common patient experience and healthcare delivery pain points
- Clinical app development experts from BWH information systems, Partners Healthcare application development team and Partners eCare groups will be present to participate as mentors or team members
- Workshops integrated into the Hackathon schedule will help guide teams
- Intro to Open.Epic Challenge & Interoperability Workshop will be held on Friday, Nov 6th from 4:30-5:30PM by Adam Landman, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer for Health Information Innovation & Integration at BWH
- Epic FHIR Developer workshop will be held on Saturday, Nov 7th from 1-2PM by Janet Campbell, Vice President of Patient Experience at Epic
- Epic software developers Sean Moore and Danielle Friend who wrote implementations of FHIR will also be available on-site for technical assistance and real time implementation of code through access to the Epic FHIR Testing Server
- Microsoft Azure cloud-based development tools will be available to Hackathon teams. Chad Gronbach, Chief Technology Architect, and Timothy Baggs, Principal Business Strategist & Architect, from Microsoft will participate in the Friday (11/6) workshop and be available throughout the event for consultation.