"Human API is the health data infrastructure healthcare providers have been waiting for.
By collecting patient data from over 50 sources, and unifying it into a single pipeline, we can provide analytics-based, dynamic-care experiences for all patients."
WHAT IF THERE WERE AN EASY WAY TO
CONNECT WITH PEOPLE IN YOUR
NEIGHBORHOOD WHO HAD THE SAME
HEALTH PROBLEMS AS YOU? THAT'S JUST
ONE IDEA FROM THE WINNERS OF THE
KNIGHT FOUNDATION'S CHALLENGE FOR
NEW TOOLS THAT USE HEALTH DATA.
Camden Health Explorer : An interactive
tool that aggregates health data and
medical insurance claim data and maps
them by both geography and
demographics. The Camden Coalition of
Healthcare Providers hopes the tool can
help hospitals and healthcare providers
target their resources more effectively.
■ Crisis Text Line : Created by
DoSomething.org, this free text messaging
counseling service for youth has already
served 14,000 teens during its beta test in
2013. In the future, DoSomething plans to
launch a national service and create an
anonymous database providing information
for and about teens in crisis.
■ Homebrew Sensing Project : This project
from Public Laboratory will use the Knight
cash to build cheap chemical analysis tools
that can be connected to smartphones and
laptops. The ultimate goal is to allow
anyone to track hazardous chemicals in
their neighborhoods, making it easier to
also track associated health effects.
■ Ohana API: Created by a group of Code for
America Fellows, Ohana is a database of
health, human, and social services for the
public to use.
■ Open Humans Network : In an attempt to
speed up medical research, this network
from PersonalGenomes.org will allow
anyone to share his or her medical data
with researchers. It will also establish
collaborative data sharing guidelines for
researchers hoping to use the network data
in their studies.
■ Positive Deviance Journalism : Coming
from the Solutions Journalism Network,
Positive Deviance will track data sets for
signs of so-called "positive deviance" in
health, or hints of promising results that
could eventually be big news stories.
■ SafeUseNow: This project from Principled
Strategies aims to cut d