The hidden secret of smartphones is their API that makes the phone’s sensors and data accessible and thereby facilitates app development on a global scale. The healthcare informatics community has long dreamed of something similar in which the underlying platform is the electronic health record. Seemingly unobtainable only a few years ago and almost by magic this is exactly what’s happening and Georgia Tech has gained a leadership position. This talk tells the story and provides information on how attendees can get into the game.

Dr. Mark Braunstein is a professor of health informatics for the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He serves as the associate director for Health Systems at Georgia Tech’s Institute for People and Technology, which fosters interdisciplinary research and instruction to re-engineer the healthcare delivery system, and he also sits as the associate editor of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE)Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.

The author of “Practitioners Guide to Health Informatics: a guide to health informatics for physicians and other non-technical readers” and "Contemporary Health Informatics," published by Springer and the American Medical Informatics Association in 2015 and 2014 respectively, he aids in research that involves healthcare process mining at the Tennenbaum Institute. Furthermore, at the Interoperability and Integration Innovation Lab (I3L), he is involved in community and industry outreach projects with lab partners to improve the quality and efficiency of health care delivery.