Background
SMArt stands for Substitutable Medical Applications, reusable technologies was created through a grant from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School and developed as a first-of-its kind platform architecture to support a flexible health information technology (IT) environment and promote innovation.
First described in a March 2009 New England Journal of Medicine Perspectives article, the SMArt architecture is an “iPhone-like” health IT platform model that aims to transform the way health IT supports health care by facilitating the development of medical applications that are scalable and substitutable; that will drive competition, innovation, and increased efficiency in the functionality of technology for improved health care.
More information on SMArt can be found here.