The federal government has released its annual list of innovation projects funded with $2 million or more from the Office of National Coordinator for Health IT.
This year's winners include a team that plans to use open-source code to develop a software platform that will make it easier for patients to order care from doctors, the New York Times reports.
The project, called FHIR (for Family Health Information Resources), is a joint effort by Boston Children's Hospital and Western New York's HealtheLINK.
"It will focus on challenge of advance care planning documents from disparate sources and not easily accessible at the point care," Steve Miliard, USC's deputy national data coordinator for health IT, says in a statement.
Another project, called interoperability, aims to make it easier for hospitals and other health systems to share data.
The projects were chosen based on their use of open-source programming and data interoperability.
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