These are all our projects. You can click on an author name or tag to filter the list of projects.

PREPPED Kids: Preschool & Pediatric Care

Helping Parents Find Resources in their Community

A multi-lingual web application for hyper-local mapping of preschools, pediatric/family medicine, and supporting resources. Focused on disadvantaged families. Text-message interface also. Launched in July 2011, next step is piloting with families in Norristown, PA.

Mapping Health

Data Visualizations for Public Health

Using information tools to improve communication and understanding of health issues. Particularly data analysis, visualizations, and GIS. Follow the link to see the visualizations. We have been completing at least one new visualization project per month on the site (mappinghealth.com).

Mobile Chronic Care Management

Self-Care and Communication Tools.

This platform would integrate the Web, smartphones, and text messaging to service patients of chronic diseases such as depression. It would include self-care tools, reminders, and tools facilitating communication between patients and their care managers (patient advocates).

Wireless Heart Rate Monitor Glove

A single LED can detect your pulse

A portable, wireless heart rate monitor in glove form. Uses pulse oximetry, and implemented with an Arduino processor and Xbee wireless platform.

Kids Rise Up

A Mobile App for Kids.

Kids Rise Up is an application that works like an iPhone App but is really just a web site; it even works on non-mobile platforms. It tracks your food choices, every meal or whenever you feel like it. You accumulate points based on nutritional quality, and you can earn more points by answering questions about what you are eating. See a dynamic chart of your progress over time. Add your friends and they can see you reach new levels of achievement and high scores. Share your ideas and notes with your friends.

See the project details page for more information.

International Exchange for Public Health

Share Successful Ideas in Public Health.

The site would collect information from public health organizations and professionals. The materials could take the forms of hospital and health center checklists, public health signage and brochures, or successful interventions. These materials can be translated between languages, shared, and improved upon.

Healthy or Not?

Crowd-Source the Spotting of Good and Bad Health Ideas.

This would be a mobile system, where people could easily submit photos and videos of what they see. The submissions could be anonymous, but often tagged with GIS coordinates. They would be contemporary artifacts, subjected to comments and judgement by public health professionals and lay people. The goal is to reveal good ideas (perhaps in other countries) as well as risky ones (perhaps in your own neighborhood).

Simple Schedule for Primary Care

Plan Preventative PCP Visits with a Simple Timeline

Diagnostic tests at a primary care center should be as transparent as your 6-month dental hygienist appointments or even the preventative maintenance on a car. This mobile-friendly website would group preventive care into a simple plan, and then remind you to schedule these appointments.

Keywords in Hospital Visits

Search and Analyze the Reasons for ER Visits.

Quickly search across 180,000 hospital intake forms. This is an early proof of concept that needs to be developed before being useful by, for example, community health centers.

Top Reasons for ER Visits

Data on the Top Reasons for ER Admission (Table).

Uses 180,000 hospital intake forms over 5 years. This is an early proof of concept that needs to be developed before being useful by, for example, community health centers.

Reasons for ER Admission

Data on Diagnoses in the ER (Chart).

Uses 180,000 hospital intake forms. This is an early proof of concept that needs to be developed before being useful by, for example, community health centers.

Category Types for ER Admission

Chart of Different Category Codes Used in ER Admission.

Uses 180,000 hospital intake forms over 5 years. This is an early proof of concept that needs to be developed before being useful by, for example, community health centers.