Jamestown company’s app to facilitate sharing health data wins $5K

LUSH GROUP, a software development and services firm that specializes in health care, has received a $5,000 award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology for its app that allows users to manage personal health care information, which was selected as one of 10 of the Move Health Data Forward Challenge.
LUSH GROUP, a software development and services firm that specializes in health care, has received a $5,000 award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology for its app that allows users to manage personal health care information, which was selected as one of 10 of the Move Health Data Forward Challenge.

JAMESTOWN – Lush Group, a software development and services firm that specializes in health care, has received a $5,000 award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology for its app that allows users to manage personal health care information.
The HealthyMePHR system was selected as one of 10 phase 1 winners of the Move Health Data Forward Challenge.
Winners were selected based on their proposals for using application programming interfaces to enable consumers to share their personal health information safely and securely with their health care providers, family members or other caregivers.
HealthyMePHR will allow patients to import their health information directly from their primary care provider’s electronic health record system, define how it is shared with others and authorize electronic access.
“In most industries, consumers can access and control their own information,” Nancy Lush, Lush Group president, said. “Patients, quite rightly, expect the same from the medical community.”
Lush said concerns about “security, privacy and data inter-operability have long kept this dream of patient-centered information management at bay, but we believe we are finally at an inflection point … HealthyMePHR will be at the forefront of a new class of solutions dedicated to improving patient engagement and well-being.”
Phase 1 of the challenge required a series of plans to describe the technical, operational, financial and business aspects of a proposed solution to show that participants had feasible and executable plans.
Each Phase 1 winner received $5,000, and they now move to Phase 2, where up to five finalists will be awarded $20,000 each for prototypes and test performance of their solutions. Phase 2 winners, expected to be revealed around Feb. 23, will then move to Phase 3, which will award $50,000 for up to two winners each based on the participant’s ability to implement their solution.
“As health information technology becomes more accessible, consumers are playing an even greater role in how and when their health information is exchanged or shared,” Dr. Vindell Washington, national coordinator for health information technology, said in a statement. “The Move Health Data Forward Challenge will help consumers unleash their health data and put it to work.”

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