Winning Team, Boston BlueButton Innovation Challenge

I was a member of the team that won the “Most Likely to Succeed” award at the MedStart Hackathon at Tufts Medical School (http://tuftsmedstart.com/) Our four-member team (Bryan Bordeaux, Michelle Qi, Elaine Wu, and I) produced a tool that helps a primary care physician by listing recommended screenings for patients.

This was a great event. It was well organized by the MD/MBA program at Tufts. It pulled together about a hundred people – entrepreneurs, software developers, physicians, designers, mentors – to think about issues of exchanging medical records (securely) so that patients can be more in charge of their care.

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