Please join us for Biomedical Data Science Grand Rounds with Kenneth Mandl, MD, MPH, Donald A. B. Lindberg Professor of Informatics and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School on Thursday, May 23 at 11:00 a.m. in Auditorium H, DHMC.

Talk title: “Building the App Store for Health”

Refreshments will be served on a first-come, first-served basis.

Talk Summary 

Dr. Mandl will discuss near term opportunities for dramatically increased computational capabilities at the point of care and for patients at home, which will be enabled by an apps-based information economy.

Biography

Dr. Mandl directs the Computational Health Informatics Program at Boston Children's Hospital and is the Donald A. B. Lindberg Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. His work at the intersection of population and individual health has had a unique and sustained influence. He was a pioneer of the first personally controlled health record systems, crowdsourcing patient knowledge from social media, and real time biosurveillance. Dr. Mandl co-developed SMART, a widely-adopted approach to enable a health app written once to access digital data and run anywhere in the healthcare system. Recently the 21st Century Cures Act made SMART a universal property of the healthcare system, enabling innovators to rapidly reach market-scale and patients and doctors to access data and an “app store for health.” Dr. Mandl received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and the Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics.