App Developed in AHRQ Competition Receives Award From American Medical Informatics Association

The PRISM™ app, which won AHRQ’s Step Up App Challenge competition by creating a user-friendly app to collect and share patient-reported outcomes, has received a second-place award in the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) App Showcase sponsored by the American Medical Informatics Association. PRISM is an acronym for PROMIS Reporting Insight System from Minnesota. Participants in AHRQ’s challenge competition were tasked to develop a Substitutable Medical Applications, Reusable Technologies (SMART®) on FHIR® app to collect standardized patient-reported outcome data. The PRISM app was designed to guide a patient through questions about their health status. Responses may be integrated with a patient’s medical record so that a clinician can address the patient’s needs and concerns during the clinical visit.