[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 132 (Tuesday, July 10, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40618-40619]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-16819]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


Announcement of Requirements and Registration for ``SMART-Indivo 
Challenge''

AGENCY: Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information 
Technology, HHS.
    Award Approving Official: Farzad Mostashari, National Coordinator 
for Health Information Technology.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: A health care system adapting to the effects of an aging 
population, growing expenditures, and a diminishing primary care 
workforce needs the support of a flexible information infrastructure 
that facilitates innovation in wellness, health care, and public 
health. Flexibility is critical, since the system will have to function 
under new policies and in the service of new health care delivery 
mechanisms, and it will need to incorporate emerging information 
technologies on an ongoing basis.
    SMART (Substitutable Medical Apps, Reusable Technologies, one of 
four Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects funded by the 
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology) 
capacitates innovation in health care by providing common APIs and 
standards for electronic medical records and personally controlled 
health records, enabling them to act as iPhone-like platforms; users 
can download or delete substitutable apps. Indivo enables individuals 
to own and manage a complete, secure, digital copy of their health and 
wellness information, integrated across sites of care and over time.
    The ``SMART-Indivo Challenge'' is a call to developers to build an 
Indivo app that provides value to patients using data delivered through 
the SMART API and its Indivo-specific extensions.
    The statutory authority for this challenge competition is Section 
105 of the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111-
358).

DATES: Effective on July 9, 2012. Challenge submission period ends 
September 28, 2012, 11:59 p.m. et.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Adam Wong, 202-720-2866; Wil Yu, 202-
690-5920.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Subject of Challenge Competition

    SMART <http://www.smartplatforms.org> (Substitutable Medical Apps, 
Reusable Technologies) is one of four Strategic Health IT Advanced 
Research Projects (SHARP) funded by the Office of the National 
Coordinator for Health Information Technology http://healthit.hhs.gov/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=1806&mode=2
    A health care system adapting to the effects of an aging 
population, growing expenditures, and a diminishing primary care 
workforce needs the support of a flexible information infrastructure 
that facilitates innovation in wellness, health care, and public 
health. Flexibility is critical, since the system will have to function 
under new policies and in the service of new health care delivery 
mechanisms, and it will need to incorporate emerging information 
technologies on an ongoing basis. SMART capacitates innovation in 
health care by providing common APIs and standards for electronic 
medical records and personally controlled health records, enabling them 
to act as iPhone-like platforms; users can download or delete 
substitutable apps. Each app is entirely modular, and can thus be 
readily substituted with new apps that provide improved functionality 
and usability. Continuous innovation is the result.
    Indivo <http://indivohealth.org> enables individuals to own and 
manage a complete, secure, digital copy of their health and wellness 
information, integrated across sites of care and over time. Indivo is 
entirely free and open-source, and is designed as a platform for apps: 
Built to be extended and customized. Using the SMART API and standards, 
augmented by functionality like sharing, developers can create powerful 
patient-facing applications. Its objective is to lower the barriers to 
creating apps for health, leaving developers to be able to focus on 
their ideas.
    The ``SMART-Indivo Challenge'' is a call to developers to build an 
Indivo app that provides value to patients using data delivered through 
the SMART API and its Indivo-specific extensions. The app will be 
either an HTML5 Web app or an iOS app that runs against the Indivo 
Developer Sandbox, where it can access patient demographics, 
medications, laboratory tests, and diagnoses using Web standards. 
Developers could, for example, build a medication manager, a health 
risk detector, a patient-friendly laboratory visualization tool, or an 
app that integrates external data sources (see http://www.healthdata.gov/) with patient records in real time.
    More information about SMART and Indivo APIs can be found at http://indivohealth.org/smart-indivo/.
    Mobile HTML5 web app submissions are welcome, as are native 
applications built on SMART's iOS Framework.

Eligibility Rules for Participating in the Competition

    To be eligible to win a prize under this challenge, an individual 
or entity--
    (1) Shall have registered to participate in the competition under 
the rules promulgated by the Office of the National Coordinator for 
Health Information Technology.
    (2) Shall have complied with all the requirements under this 
section.
    (3) In the case of a private entity, shall be incorporated in and 
maintain a primary place of business in the United States, and in the 
case of an individual, whether participating singly or in a group, 
shall be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States.
    (4) May not be a Federal entity or Federal employee acting within 
the scope of their employment.
    (5) Shall not be an HHS employee working on their applications or 
submissions during assigned duty hours.
    (6) Shall not be an employee of Office of the National Coordinator 
for Health IT.
    (7) Federal grantees may not use Federal funds to develop COMPETES 
Act challenge applications unless consistent with the purpose of their 
grant award.
    (8) Federal contractors may not use Federal funds from a contract 
to develop COMPETES Act challenge applications or to fund efforts in 
support of a COMPETES Act challenge submission.
    (9) Personnel of the SHARP program and their students are not 
eligible to compete for the prize.

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    An individual or entity shall not be deemed ineligible because the 
individual or entity used Federal facilities or consulted with Federal 
employees during a competition if the facilities and employees are made 
available to all individuals and entities participating in the 
competition on an equitable basis.
    Entrants must agree to assume any and all risks and waive claims 
against the Federal Government and its related entities, except in the 
case of willful misconduct, for any injury, death, damage, or loss of 
property, revenue, or profits, whether direct, indirect, or 
consequential, arising from my participation in this prize contest, 
whether the injury, death, damage, or loss arises through negligence or 
otherwise.
    Entrants must also agree to indemnify the Federal Government 
against third party claims for damages arising from or related to 
competition activities.

Registration Process for Participants

    To register for this challenge participants should either:
     Access the www.challenge.gov Web site and search for the 
``SMART-Indivo Challenge''.
     Access the ONC Investing in Innovation (i2) Challenge Web 
site at:
    [cir] http://www.health2con.com/devchallenge/challenges/onc-i2-challenges/.
    [cir] A registration link for the challenge can be found on the 
landing page under the challenge description.

Amount of the Prize

 First Prize: $10,000
 Second Prize: $2,000
 Third Prize: $1,000
    Awards may be subject to Federal income taxes and HHS will comply 
with IRS withholding and reporting requirements, where applicable.

Payment of the Prize

    Prize will be paid by contractor.

Basis Upon Which Winner Will Be Selected

    The review panel will make selections based upon the following 
criteria:

 Usefulness to patients
 Importance to clinical medicine or public health
 Interface and presentation
 Use of the Indivo and SMART APIs
 Creative use of data from the sandbox and (optionally) from 
open health data sources

Additional Information

    Ownership of intellectual property is determined by the following:
     Each entrant retains title and full ownership in and to 
their submission. Entrants expressly reserve all intellectual property 
rights not expressly granted under the challenge agreement.
     By participating in the challenge, each entrant hereby 
irrevocably grants to Sponsor and Administrator a limited, non-
exclusive, royalty free, worldwide, license and right to reproduce, 
publically perform, publically display, and use the Submission to the 
extent necessary to administer the challenge, and to publically perform 
and publically display the Submission, including, without limitation, 
for advertising and promotional purposes relating to the challenge.

    Authority:  15 U.S.C. 3719.

    Dated: June 28, 2012.
Farzad Mostashari,
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2012-16819 Filed 7-9-12; 8:45 am]
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