7 Brilliant Ideas To Make Health Data More Useful | Co.Exist | World changing ideas and innovation - 1 views
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Aurialie Jublin on 26 Jan 14WHAT 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