2011 Open Health Tools Academic Challenge

“Consumer Empowerment in Healthcare Improvement”

April 14, 2011

Virtual Presentations

Co-Organized By:

Open Health Tools (OHT)

Executive Director – Skip McGaughey

Transformations at the Edge (TATE)

Executive Director – Tom M. Gomez

American Academy of Family Physicians National Research Network (AAFP NRN)

Director – Wilson D. Pace, MD

The Challenge:
For the 2011 Challenge, the consumer is Ruth Johnson, a 70 year old, mentally acute, retired military secretary with
chronic congestive heart failure (CHF) and chronic kidney disease (CKD), who is on home abdominal dialysis. She is
to be monitored remotely by daily home medical device communications. She is faced with the decision on
whether to allow her home medical device data to be used in research for the improvement of home dialysis.

The 2011 Challenge is divided into three participation levels:

1. Community College students (2 year programs) will demonstrate their ability to configure a federally
certified provider EHR to communicate with an instance of CONNECT and view a consumer consent
document located in the OHT Document Repository via their EHR. Students will participate in this level from
their college locations via web conference.
2. University or College undergraduate students (4 year programs) will compete on the development of an
open source software application that includes the ability for a consumer to submit home medical device
data from the home to an instance of CONNECT and demonstrate the ability to view the home medical
device data located in the OHT Document Repository through an innovative consumer GUI on the
consumer device used to submit the data. Students will participate in this level from their university
locations via web conference.
3. All levels of students up to the PhD level will compete on the development of an open source software
application that includes the ability for a consumer to submit signed documents to an instance of
CONNECT hosted by OHT authorizing their medical device data to be used for research. Contestant will
demonstrate the ability to view the consumer consent documents located in the OHT Document
Repository through an innovative consumer GUI on the consumer device used to choose the appropriate
consumer permissions, sign the documents, and submit the documents. Students will participate in this level
via live presentations in Miami.

Additional details may be found at http://www.openhealthtools.org/. All participants will be required to submit any
software code they develop for the Challenge and extend their copyrights to the OHT Open Source Community.

Program Co-Chairs:
Dan Russler, MD
Tom M. Gomez
Wilson D. Pace, MD
Elliot B. Sloane, PhD
Open Health Tools Academic Outreach Project
Transformations at the Edge
American Academy of Family Physicians National Research Network
Drexel University & Co-Chair of IHE International

Pre-Registration: Send email to Challenge 2011 with contact information including phone number,
level of participation, and academic affiliation.
Contacts:
Dan Russler, MD 404-276-1718 dan.russler@oracle.com
Tom M. Gomez 917-304-7149 tgomez@brainshield.com